Syllabus Fall 2017: Poverty and Inequality in the Americas
HIST 600 Poverty and Inequality in the Americas Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2017 / W 1:20-3:15 / Humanities 5257 Poverty and inequality are not new problems, but […]
Category Archives: United States
Syllabus Fall 2017: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1898
History 434 U.S. Foreign Relations Since 1898 Professor Patrick Iber Fall 2017 / MWF 11:00-11:50AM / Humanities 1111 For the most of the twentieth century, the United […]
Debating Political Economy: An Approach to Teaching the U.S. and the World
In the Journal of American History vol. 103, no. 4 (March 2017), I have an essay in the textbooks and teaching section about using weekly debates, and a political economy frame, […]
Socialism’s Return, in The Nation
In my debut in The Nation‘s Books & the Arts section, I have an essay based on a reading of Bernie Sanders’s two campaign books and two volumes of essays by the left-wing […]
The Soundtrack of the U.S. Survey
This post was published at Teaching U.S. history blog on November 23, 2016, but has been updated here with some new entries. Like many other professors do, I’ve integrated good deal […]
Syllabus Spring 2017: U.S. history survey, since 1865
History 1302 History of the United States since 1865 Professor Patrick Iber Spring 2017 / Tuesday & Thursday 10:30-11:50AM Physical Science 208 Course description and […]
Whoopee cushions in the Memory Palace: On Comedy and the History Curriculum
My final post for Teaching United States history: In 2012, a study of news habits revealed that those who watched the partisan outlets Fox or MSNBC were actually less informed […]
