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Leading historians and award-winning authors share their cutting-edge scholarship and timely insights for use in all manner of classes. Join us live to participate in lively question and answer sessions following each event.
Hosted by Jeremy I. Adelman
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In this workshop, Jeremy Adelman (Cambridge University) introduces the worldwide community of adopters and instructors who are part of the Global History Lab and who use Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. Topics will include engagement through active learning and problem solving, themes that speak to students (such as environment and indigeneity), and living history and the relationship between history and the headlines (such as war and peace and race).
Hosted by J.R. McNeill
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In this webinar, J.R. McNeill, author of The Webs of Humankind, discusses how environmental history fits into the world history perspective offered in the book. It touches on familiar stories, such as the Columbian Exchange and the current bout of climate change, but also the concept of the Anthropocene, the global impacts of early industrialization, and others from the Pleistocene to the present.
Hosted by Julia M. Gossard
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In this teaching workshop, Julia M. Gossard (Utah State University) explores how to scaffold primary source analyses for general education students to build their historical skills in asynchronous online classrooms. Through the use of reading grids, apply knowledge activities, history skills tutorials, and the new Norton Illumine Ebook interactivity, Dr. Gossard demonstrates how her European History students have successfully built their confidence, skills, and academic performance.
Hosted by Kathleen DuVal
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Have you ever had trouble getting students to read their textbook? Join W. W. Norton and Give Me Liberty! coauthor Kathleen DuVal (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) to learn about the Norton Illumine Ebook. New to the Seventh Edition, the ebook now includes interactive features to guide students through primary documents and images, and low-stakes questions to keep students engaged in and accountable for the reading. Professor DuVal will also share how she uses this ebook and its features with her students, and will be available to answer questions from instructors.
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Want to see simple ways you can incorporate digital resources into your course? Check out this 30-minute webinar, led by Norton history specialist (and card-carrying historian) Julie Sindel and Sarah England Bartley.
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"The Family Roe: An Online Lecture and Q&A with Joshua Prager", January 18, 2023 To support instructors and students online, W. W. Norton offered a special virtual lecture with journalist Joshua Prager, drawing from his decade of research on the people behind the Supreme Court’s most divisive case, Roe v. Wade. Propelled by the crosscurrents of sex and religion, gender and class, these lives tell the story of abortion in America. |
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"Making Amends: Rewriting the U.S. Constitution" with Jill Lepore, October 19, 2022 The U.S. Constitution was always meant to be amended: fixed, added to, improved. But it has become one of the most difficult constitutions in the world to change. How did that happen? And what are its consequences? In an interactive workshop, historian Jill Lepore will present early findings of her new research project on the history of efforts to rewrite the Constitution. Related to These Truths. |
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Kelly Lytle Hernández's book, Bad Mexicans, reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. In this 30-minute lecture, Hernández explores the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Related to Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands. |
"The Shattering: America in the 1960s" with Kevin Boyle, March 1, 2022 Kevin Boyle's book The Shattering is a masterful history of the decade whose conflicts shattered America’s postwar order and divide us still. In this 30-minute lecture, Boyle uses the stories of four ordinary Americans to explore the extraordinary upheavals of the 1960s: a history of deep division and sweeping change, told on an intimate scale. Related to The Shattering: America in the 1960s. |
A blend of reading, analysis and method, this lecture addresses the variety of forms that history might assume, especially when we take into account minor lives and subjugated knowledge. Related to Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals. |
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Learn about a concept that unlocks an intuitive, cohesive view of world history: webs of connection along which trade, religious beliefs, technologies, pathogens, and much else traveled. Related to The Webs of Humankind: A World History. |
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The story of Helen Hamilton Gardener, who died as the highest-ranking woman in federal government and a national symbol of female citizenship, casts suffrage history in a fresh light. Related to Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the Extraordinary Life of Helen Hamilton Gardener. |
"Pandemics and Civilization" with Mark Honigsbaum (City University of London), May 27, 2020 From the 6th century Plague of Justinian that hastened the fall of the Byzantine Empire to the reforms to the English feudal system that followed the 14th century Black Death, pandemics have long been regarded as agents of historical change and key factors in the rise and fall of civilizations. Related to The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria, and Hubris. |
A follow-up to the previous lecture, Dr. Symes discusses the far-ranging consequences of the Black Death, the medieval plague that struck during the 14th century. Related to Western Civilizations. |
Cutting-edge research has transformed our understanding of the causes and extent of the Black Death, the medieval plague that struck during the 14th century and is estimated to have killed 40–60% of the populations of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Related to Related to Western Civilizations. |
"The Second Founding" with Eric Foner (Columbia University), April 8, 2020 The Reconstruction amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed all persons due process and equal protection of the law, and equipped black men with the right to vote. In grafting the principle of equality onto the Constitution, these revolutionary changes marked the second founding of the United States. Related to The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution. |
"Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement" with Kate Masur, April 28, 2021 W. W. Norton is offering a special virtual lecture with scholar and author Kate Masur, who will discuss how Black and white Americans mobilized to fight for racial equality in civil rights, from the era of the American Revolution through the Civil War. Related to Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction. |
Challenging the optimistic story of the post-Jim Crow United States, Hinton's discussion will present a new framework for understanding our nation's enduring racial strife.. Related to America on Fire: The Untold History of Police Violence and Black Rebellion Since the 1960s. |
"Seed Money: Monsanto’s Past and Our Food Future" with Bartow J. Elmore, October 13, 2021 Elmore's new book, Seed Money, is an authoritative history of Monsanto, a St. Louis chemical firm that became the world’s largest maker of genetically engineered seeds. When researchers found trace amounts of the firm’s blockbuster herbicide in breakfast cereal bowls, Monsanto faced public outcry. But what’s the real story behind Roundup? Related to Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future. |
"Of Fear and Strangers" with George Makari, February 15, 2022 In this 30-minute lecture, Makari will discuss how xenophobia emerged alongside Western nationalism, colonialism, mass migration, and genocide. Stranger-hatred may indeed be ancient, but the moral and political notion of this dangerous bias emerged not long ago. Related to Of Fear and Strangers: A History of Xenophobia. |
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"Scaffolding Historical Skills Online" with Julia M. Gossard, March 8, 2023 In this teaching workshop, Julia M. Gossard (Utah State University) explores how to scaffold primary source analyses for general education students to build their historical skills in asynchronous online classrooms. Through the use of reading grids, apply knowledge activities, history skills tutorials, and the new Norton Illumine Ebook interactivity, Dr. Gossard demonstrates how her European History students have successfully built their confidence, skills, and academic performance. Related to Western Civilizations 21e. |
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"Introducing the Norton Illumine Ebook" with Kathleen DuVal, February 28, 2023 Have you ever had trouble getting students to read their textbook? Join W. W. Norton and Give Me Liberty! coauthor Kathleen DuVal (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) to learn about the Norton Illumine Ebook. New to the Seventh Edition, the ebook now includes interactive features to guide students through primary documents and images, and low-stakes questions to keep students engaged in and accountable for the reading. Professor DuVal will also share how she uses this ebook and its features with her students, and will be available to answer questions from instructors. Related to Give Me Liberty! 7e. |
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"Equity-Minded Teaching in U.S. History" with Trinidad Gonzales, February 16, 2023 Are you hoping to realize a more equitable U.S. history course where all students regardless of background have an equal chance to succeed? Join Trinidad Gonzales (South Texas College), winner of the American Historical Association’s John Lewis award for history and social justice, who will share and talk about equity-minded teaching materials he developed to support Norton’s bestselling history text, Give Me Liberty! Related to Give Me Liberty! 7e. |
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"Teaching Western Civ in the 21st Century" with Carol Symes and Joshua Cole, February 7, 2023 In an age of world history, why teach Western Civilizations? Carol Symes (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) and Joshua Cole (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), co-authors of the #1 bestselling text, will share perspectives on teaching the Western Civ survey in a way that emphasizes global context, relevance, and critical thinking. Related to Western Civilizations 21e. |
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In this hourlong workshop, Foner, DuVal, and McGirr will discuss how they collaborated while sharing examples from the revised edition. Emphasizing how the arcs of Native sovereignty, dispossession, and resilience refine our understanding of freedom’s promises and limits, the authors will share ideas for how U.S. history instructors might present this new coverage to their students. Related to Give Me Liberty! 7e. |
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This workshop covers how to make teaching global history accessible for students and instructors through a coherent and meaningful story, focusing on particular themes, and other approaches and resources. Related to Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. |
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This workshop focuses on how to incorporate a diverse array of evidence—from archeology, linguistics, climate data and more—into the world history survey. Related to The Webs of Humankind: A World History. |
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This workshop focuses on successful teaching strategies and content examples from teaching the world history survey course in a diverse range of classroom settings including in-person, hybrid, and remote. Related to Worlds Together, Worlds Apart. |
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Flashpoints is a new series of immersive role-playing activities designed to help students bring historical ideas and forces to life. Related to Reacting to the Past. |
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Alaric the Goth’s life as an immigrant in the fifth century A.D. offers a compelling way for students and teachers to access that key aspect of world history while fostering an important conversation about citizenship today. Related to Alaric the Goth: An Outsider's History of the Fall of Rome. |
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This workshop discusses problems commonly encountered in teaching history online and tips on getting started quickly and moving courses online. |
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"History Digital Resources Workshop" with the Norton History Team This 30-minute webinar, led by Norton history specialist (and card-carrying historian) Julie Sindel and History Media Editor Carson Russell, shows simple ways you can incorporate digital resources into your course. |
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