A Guide to Teaching About the War on Terrorism
Discussion of terrorism and the war against it has remained front and center in American’s lives and America’s classrooms...
A Nation Must Think Before it Acts
A Guide to Teaching About the War on Terrorism
A nation must think before it acts.
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What College Students Learn About Terrorism: A Case Study of IR Textbooks
Terrorism is a strategy to weaken a hated political authority. It is a security threat, but almost the opposite...
What Our Children Should Learn About 9/11/2001
The Wachman Center for Civic and International Literacy sponsors professional-development weekends for teachers from all over the country, and...
Teaching Geography and Geopolitics
Why Geography Matters Walter McDougall, Chairman of FPRI’s History Institute and professor of international relations at the University of Pennsylvania,...
Teaching About the War on Terrorism
The events of September 11, 2001 have placed the subject of terrorism and the war against it, front and...
Teaching World Religions: A Report of FPRI’s History Institute for Teachers
The growing demand for guidance on teaching world religions in American high schools and colleges over the past few...
How to Learn Lessons from History— And How Not To
The matter of learning lessons from history has been a prodigious source of aphorism and free advice. George Santayana...
You Can’t Argue with Geography
For #GeographyAwarenessWeek, we share with you this classic essay by FPRI's Walter McDougall. This article was originally published on...
Teaching the Vietnam War: A Conference Report
How did the United States get into Vietnam? What was it doing there? What happened at home? How did...
Teaching the Vietnam War
In your conference packet you should have the op-ed which the New York Times asked me to write on...