New Perspectives on the Genesis of the United States of America
Why did Britain, rather than Spain or France, come to dominate North America? With what spirits did Britons embark...
A nation must think before it acts.
Conference
The American Encounter with Islam
FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education is pleased to announce a weekend-long history institute on “The American Encounter...
Teaching Japan
FPRI’s Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education is pleased to announce a weekend-long history institute on “Teaching Japan,” featuring...
Teaching Geography and Geopolitics
Visit a strange city or neighborhood without a map, and you are lost. We know this, and so do...
Teaching World Religions
Demand for teaching world religions is growing in high schools and colleges. Young Americans, themselves often religious, are curious...
Teaching the Vietnam War
The debate over Vietnam has been described as an “argument without end” that continues to affect not only how...
Understanding the Middle East – And Teaching It
The Marvin Wachman Fund for International Education, a division of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, will present a one-day...
Multiculturalism in World History
In today’s America, multiculturalism means several things. To some, it describes an America already composed today of diverse cultures...
The Cold War Revisited
The Cold War is the blanket term we use for the struggle between the United States and the Soviet...
Teaching History: Why and How
“History may be servitude, history may be freedom.” As these words of the poet T.S. Eliot remind us,...