Essays on Teaching World History

Eckhardt Fuchs & Karen Oslund, eds.

Essays on Teaching World History

Papers from the Conference "Teaching World History" at the GHI (March 03 - 06, 2005)

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The essays in this special issue originated from the conference "Teaching World History" held at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC, in March 2005. This conference was the third in a sequence of meetings about World History that have been organized by the German Historical Institutes in London and Washington in 1997 and 2000. These meetings brought together distinguished scholars who discussed issues of writing and teaching world history. The results of the first two meetings have been published as Eckhardt Fuchs and Benedikt Stuchtey (eds.), Cross Cultural Borders: Historiography in a Global Perspective (Lanham, 2002); Benedikt Stuchtey and Eckhardt Fuchs (eds.), Writing World History 1800-2000 (Oxford, 2003). On the report of the 2005 conference see Eckhardt Fuchs and Karen Oslund, "Teaching World History," Bulletin of the German Historical Institute Washington 37 (Fall 2005): 87-94. A number of papers also given at this conference and dealing with world history teaching at universities are published in Comparativ 16.1 (2006).