[Ohiogift] National History Club News - Feb. 15, 2018

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November 2018

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Johns Hopkins University

Santa Clara University

        "An African American and Latinx History of the United States"                    
            by Paul Ortiz            

            NOW IN PAPERBACK            

            Beacon Press | Paperback | 978-0-8070-0593-4 | 288 pages | $16.00            

            Spanning more than two hundred years, An African American and Latinx History of the United States is a revolutionary, politically charged narrative history, arguing that the "Global South" was crucial to the development of America as we know it. Scholar and activist Paul Ortiz challenges the notion of westward progress as exalted by widely taught formulations like "manifest destiny" and "Jacksonian democracy," and shows how placing African American, Latinx, and Indigenous voices unapologetically front and center transforms US history into one of the working class organizing against imperialism.            

            Incisive and timely, this bottom-up history, told from the interconnected vantage points of Latinx and African Americans, reveals the radically different ways that people of the diaspora have addressed issues still plaguing the United States today, and it offers a way forward in the continued struggle for universal civil rights.            

            "A concise, alternate history of the United States. . . .A sleek, vital history that effectively shows how, 'from the outset, inequality was enforced with the whip, the gun, and the United States Constitution.'" -- Kirkus Reviews            

            "Paul Ortiz's African American and Latinx History of the United States provides an essential frame for understanding how freedom struggles dating back to the eighteenth century inform today's entrenched inequality and systemic racism across diasporas. This is a necessary text for reconceptualizing American history, and Ortiz meticulously establishes historical precedent for multiethnic coalition building that extends beyond geographical borders to restore dignity and architect descriptive and substantive representation." -- Sonja Diaz, Executive Director of the University of California, Los Angeles, Latino Policy and Politics Initiative            

            Educators: To request a free review copy, contact us at K12education at edu.penguinrandomhouse.com or 844-851- 3955.            

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Gilder Lehrman Teacher Seminars

            The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History offers academically rigorous Teacher Seminars each summer for K-12 educators. Held at colleges and historic sites across the US and abroad, these weeklong seminars offer teachers daily programs with America's leading historians, visits to local historic sites, and hands-on work with primary sources. Seminar topics range from the earliest days of American history to the impact of 9/11 on US foreign and domestic policy.            

            Applications open on November 15, 2018.            

Learn more at gilderlehrman.org/teacherseminars

Johns Hopkins University

            The Johns Hopkins History Department offers students the opportunity to work intensively in the classroom and with individual faculty to discover the richness and complexity of history.  At the undergraduate level, students begin with general courses, but progress quickly to courses that explore topics in depth and provide experience in researching, analyzing, and writing about the past.            

            The Hopkins History Department is the oldest PhD program in history in the United States and the recipients of our degrees hold distinguished positions in universities and colleges in this country and abroad.  Graduate students work independently and with faculty advisers on reading and research in their fields of interest, while departmental seminars bring them together to discuss their research, forging a collegial intellectual culture.            

            The department continues to pioneer new areas of research. The department's particular areas of strength include history of the United States, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Most members of our faculty focus on social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history. In addition to the department's long-distinguished concentration in the Atlantic world, it hosts clusters of faculty with common interests in transnational and imperial history; the history of gender and sexuality; African-American history; and the history of capitalism and political economy.            

Visit the JHU History Department!

Santa Clara University

            Santa Clara University is a Jesuit institution at the crossroads of the past and the future.  What began as a Spanish Mission established by Junipero Serra in 1777, the 8th of the original 21 California missions, became Santa Clara College in 1851.  It is California's oldest operating institution of higher learning, becoming a university in 1912. In 2019 the university, located in the heart of the Silicon Valley, was named the top-ranked regional university in the western United States in the U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings.            

            The History Department offers a lively array of classes featuring various world areas and/or time periods offered by a deeply engaged and productive faculty.  History majors and minors are guaranteed a paid summer internship through the REAL (Real Experience, Actual Learning) Program of the College of Arts and Sciences.  The Department also boasts an enthusiastic History Club, a student organization dedicated to bringing together students and faculty outside the classroom to enjoy activities including historically themed games, films, and speakers.            

            Santa Clara History students also produce Historical Perspectives, the department's journal of student work.  It has been recognized in the national competition for the Gerald D. Nash History Journal Prize, winning second place in 2009 and 2011, first place in 2013, third place in 2017, and second place in 2018.  The Department's chapter of Phi Alpha Theta (national History Honor's Society) is extremely active, regularly presenting (and winning prizes) at regional student conferences.  Last winter four SCU students presented at the Biennial Convention in New Orleans and in the spring, the Santa Clara chapter hosted 11 colleges and universities at the regional conference.            

For more, visit the Santa Clara History Department!

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