Understanding the Koreas: A Report of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers
Walter McDougall opened the conference, speaking of Northeast Asia’s role as “a major hinge, and at times the most...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
Understanding the Koreas: A Report of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers
A nation must think before it acts.
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A New Middle East?
During the past two years the United States has launched several major initiatives intended to remake the Middle East...
New Perspectives on the Genesis of the U.S.
Colonial Origins of American Identity Walter McDougall, co-chair of FPRI’s History Institute and professor of international relations and history...
The Big Mac and Teaching About Japan
The Big Mac can be effective tool in helping students achieve a better understanding of Japan. It can defeat...
Teaching about Japan: Films About Japanese Culture, Literature and History
Kokoro: The Heart Within (1998), Bonneville Worldwide Entertainment, 55 North 300 West, Suite 315, Salt Lake City Utah, 84110-1160....
Beyond the Rhetoric: Essential Questions About Japanese Education
Over the past two decades, Americans have been preoccupied by Japan’s schools. Often the rhetoric has prevented educators and...
The American Encounter with Islam
Most analyses of terrorism and Islam following the September 11 attacks have stressed the thousand-year conflict with Christianity and...
Islam in America
Though most of us think of the American relationship with Islam as a modern phenomenon, the encounter in fact...
Teaching About Japan #2
In this edition of our series of bulletins on Teaching about Japan, we review T.R. Reid’s Confucius Lives Next...
Teaching About Japan
In this first bulletin in the “Teaching about Japan” series, we feature three resources that we think you will...