History Department
Faculty members from the Indiana University School of Education and the College of Arts and Sciences are beginning newly funded projects to enhance the teaching of U.S. history in schools, thanks to grants from the U.S. Department of Education. The grants are each from the Teaching American History program, which the department describes as a program designed "to raise student achievement by improving teachers' knowledge and understanding of and appreciation for traditional U.S. history."
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Over the past 20 years or so, scholars have delved deeply into the racial ideologies that became influential in the early 1900s and helped facilitate the rise of Nazi Germany. But has the pendulum swung too far? A conference this weekend at Indiana University Bloomington will examine the limits of the "racial state" model in explaining Germany's Third Reich and explore the role of other factors, such as nationalism and ethnic and class issues.
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In its September 2009 issue, the Indiana Magazine of History offers five essays commemorating the 50th anniversary of Richard C. Wade's seminal book in Midwestern and urban history, The Urban Frontier: The Rise of Western Cities, 1790-1830.
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The Journal of American History marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln with a special issue of Lincoln history and historiography. Historian Matthew Pinsker writes in a state-of-the-field essay that "there has never been a more active or creative period in Lincoln studies."
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The Triennial Rural Women's Studies Conference at IU Bloomington will emphasize health and sustainability in rural communities and will involve those who face challenges every day.
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A special issue of the Indiana Magazine of History includes articles from an Indiana University Bloomington conference on the controversial series of murals painted by artist Thomas Hart Benton for the Indiana Hall as part of the Chicago Century of Progress International Exposition in 1933.
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