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| Location: | Room 542, 726 Broadway |
| Open to public?: | Yes |
Complete Description: | Monday September 29th, Noon-1:30 PM
Room 542, 726 Broadway
Lunch provided
Please rsvp to Jeff Snyder, jeff.snyder@nyu.edu
Jim Fraser is writing a U.S. History textbook for use in secondary schools; Tom Bender is writing a college-level one.
Given the plethora of textbooks already available, we thought it'd be worth discussing why these historians are writing their own.
Thomas Bender is a Professor in the History Department, NYU. Already well
established as an urban and intellectual historian--books in these fields include The Unfinished
City: New York and the Metropolitan Idea (2002), New York Intellect: A History of Intellectual
Life in New York City, from 1750 to the Beginnings of Our Own Time (1987)--Bender has recently
placed U.S. history in a global context in A Nation Among Nations: America's Place in
World HistoryThe Education of Historians for the Twenty-First Century (2006) and in
seminars he does each summer on the Civil War in Global Context, sponsored by the Gilder-Lehrman
Institute of American History. For the American Historical Association (AHA) he directed a
study of graduate education in the field, as reported in The Education of Historians for the
Twenty-First Century, co-authored with Philip M. Katz, Colin Palmer and the Committee
on Graduate Education of the AHA.
James W. Fraser is a historian of education and of religion. Currently a Professor
in the department of Humanities and Social Studies in NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education,
and Human Development, he previously taught in the History Department at Northeastern University
where he also the founding Dean of its School of Education. In working with Boston public schools
he saw how too often history was taught badly and boringly. His books include Preparing America's
Teachers, A History (2007), Between Church and State: Religion and Public Education
in a Multicultural America (1999), Reading, Writing and Justice: School Reform as
if Democracy Matters (1997). |
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