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Scott E. Casper | Teaching U.S. History Abroad | The Journal of American History, 96.4 | The History Cooperative
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Teaching U.S. History Abroad


Scott E. Casper
Contributing Editor, Textbooks and Teaching


For students outside the United States, "American history is not 'just academic,'" in the words of a historian born and educated in Michigan who taught in Canada for thirty-five years. Students around the world know—or think they know—the United States from their immersion in American popular culture, their encounters with American political and economic power, or, more likely, both. Many of them bring divided views to their collegiate study of American history: "a complex intermingling of fascination and horror," as Celia M. Azevedo, a Brazilian historian of the United States, puts it in her essay in this issue. These students' instructors grapple not only with the worldwide influence and consequences of American power but also with the manifestations of that reach in a particular classroom, university, locale, and nation. To teach U.S. history abroad, or to teach abroad as an American, is "to engage with the dialectic between the global and the local on a daily basis."1 . . .
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