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Trevor
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 Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 2:31 am Post subject: I need suggestions on a good American History Textbook |
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| Next semester I am teaching American History and I am responsible for course design. Does anyone know a good Korean-friendly textbook? It's for fairly bright university freshman and sophomores. |
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hinesketchup
Joined: 28 Mar 2008
Location: New York
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 4:31 am Post subject: Suggestion |
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| It's a little unorthodox, but I highly recommend "The Cartoon History of the United States." I used it in high school for the AP exam, and my bilingual social studies class loves it! It presents a very well-rounded view of American history and, of course, it's all in cartoons. |
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PigeonFart
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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| .....make sure that the book doesn't say that WW2 began with Pearl Harbour. |
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Ed Provencher
Joined: 15 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 3:21 pm Post subject: |
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A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, Howard Zinn
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James W. Loewen |
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Suwon23
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Ed Provencher wrote: |
| A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, Howard Zinn |
We used that in my high school history class. The language isn't too hard, and it covers all the important stuff. A good choice. |
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Trevor
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:29 pm Post subject: |
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| Thank you for the suggestions. I will look into it. I hope they are easily available in Korea. Also, I am looking for something with writing exercises within the format to keep 'em busy. |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
Location: Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do
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| Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2008 11:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Suwon23 wrote: |
| Ed Provencher wrote: |
| A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, Howard Zinn |
We used that in my high school history class. The language isn't too hard, and it covers all the important stuff. A good choice. |
A good choice? Publisher's Weekly calls it "a definitive statement of leftist, multicultural, anti-imperialist historiography." They get enough of that crap from their Korean high school teachers, members of the pro-North Korea KTU. Try something a bit more objective. |
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Trevor
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:54 am Post subject: |
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The controlling idea that I intend to run the class by is that all history is biased, so it will not hurt to have a biased textbook, I don't think.
| Ut videam wrote: |
| Suwon23 wrote: |
| Ed Provencher wrote: |
| A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, Howard Zinn |
We used that in my high school history class. The language isn't too hard, and it covers all the important stuff. A good choice. |
A good choice? Publisher's Weekly calls it "a definitive statement of leftist, multicultural, anti-imperialist historiography." They get enough of that crap from their Korean high school teachers, members of the pro-North Korea KTU. Try something a bit more objective. |
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Sincinnatislink
Joined: 30 Jan 2007
Location: Top secret.
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 2:40 am Post subject: |
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| Ut videam wrote: |
| They get enough of that crap from their Korean high school teachers, members of the pro-North Korea KTU. |
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| The Korean Teachers and Education Workers' Union or JeonGyoJo was founded in 1989. The government immediately made the KTU illegal, and in the years that followed over 1,500 members were dismissed. |
You mean that organization that had the gall to organize teachers and oppose a military government?
http://english.eduhope.net/manifesto.htm
Slightly-left-of-center is a viewpoint that Korean children have drilled into their heads at the institutional level? 
You need a serious reality check. Do you seriously believe that anyone even close to the left has any voice in Korea's public dialogue? |
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Ut videam
Joined: 07 Dec 2007
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You're living in the 1980s, Sincinnatislink.
10 years of Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun later, the landscape has changed ever so slightly in Korea. You're the one who needs the reality check.
To get you started, here's just a few examples:
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Trevor
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:42 am Post subject: |
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Now boys, boys...can't we all just try to get along in my humble textbook request thread?
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You're living in the 1980s, Sincinnatislink.
10 years of Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun later, the landscape has changed ever so slightly in Korea. You're the one who needs the reality check. |
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Ya-ta Boy
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 1:23 pm Post subject: |
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The controlling idea that I intend to run the class by is that all history is biased, so it will not hurt to have a biased textbook, I don't think.
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If this is your goal, then you will have trouble demonstrating your point if you use a leftist history book. It will read just like their Korean history book. |
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Trevor
Joined: 16 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Not really a problem, other historical reosurces abound on the internet and elsewhere and I have good media equipment in the classroom. I can show them differing viewpoints from their textbook.
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The controlling idea that I intend to run the class by is that all history is biased, so it will not hurt to have a biased textbook, I don't think.
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If this is your goal, then you will have trouble demonstrating your point if you use a leftist history book. It will read just like their Korean history book. |
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semi-fly
Joined: 07 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:17 pm Post subject: |
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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People To 1877 by Alan Brinkley
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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People From 1865 by Alan Brinkley |
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Mr. Pink
Joined: 21 Oct 2003
Location: China
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| Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2008 5:27 pm Post subject: |
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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People To 1877 by Alan Brinkley
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The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People From 1865 by Alan Brinkley |
I've heard of that author but never read those books.
One thing though, if you are going to teach American History, most books go with a part 1 and part 2 approach: basically from the ice age migration across the Beijing Straight to just after the Civil War = Part 1. 1865 and the Reconstruction era to the present = Part 2.
And to the person who said WWII didn't start with Pearl Harbour...if you are looking at WHEN the US was OFFICIALLY involved, then yes, WWII did start with Pearl Harbour for THEM.
Of course those of us who know our history know it started in 1939, but the US was officially neutral. |
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