Teaching American history outside the United States poses a special set of challenges but can also create unique thematic and pedagogic opportunities. In this section of “Textbooks and Teaching,” instructors in Europe, Asia, Australia, South America, and the Middle East share their personal experiences with teaching U.S. history abroad, illustrating some of the instructional obstacles they faced and explaining how they took advantage of often-unexpected educational moments.

Listen to an interview with Scott E. Casper about this installment of the “Textbooks & Teaching” section in the JAH Podcast. http://www.journalofamericanhistory.org/podcast/

In this installment

• Teaching U.S. History Abroad
  by Scott E. Casper


• Living against America: Classroom Encounters in Beirut
  by Patrick McGreevy


• Transcending Intellectual Nationalism: Teaching U.S. History in German Universities
  by Sabine N. Meyer


• Balancing the Local and the Global: The American Civil War in Western Canadian Classrooms,
  by Frank Towers


• Exploring the “American Obsession” Down Under: Teaching Civil Rights History in Australia,
  by Timothy J. Minchin


• What’s So Bad about Polygamy? Teaching American Religious History in the Muslim Middle East,
  by Patrick Q. Mason


• Learning about Civil War, Separatism, and Nation Building through Teaching in the Turkish Republic,
  by Tim Roberts


• Teaching Secession and the Civil War in Scotland,
  by Paul Quigley


• “Because It Is My Culture”: Technology and Agency in the Overseas U.S. Cultural History Classroom,
  by JoAnne Marie Mancini


• Ten Years of Teaching U.S. History at unicamp, Brazil: A Memoir,
  by Celia M. Azevedo


• Teaching U.S. History in Russia: Issues, Challenges, and Prospects,
  by Ivan I. Kurilla and Victoria I. Zhuravleva