The Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history
Print version: Understanding and Teaching Religion in US History. First edition. Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, c2024 xi, 331 pages Harvey Goldberg series for understanding and teaching history. ISBN 9780299346300
Introduction: Why religion matters in teaching US history -- Part one: Frameworks for teaching religion in American history. Teaching American religious history academically -- Adding religion to themes you already teach: religion as a component of diversity in America -- Talking about religion and race in the classroom -- African American religious experiences and narratives of American history -- Religion in women’s history -- Native American religious experiences and cross-cultural engagement -- Teaching American Islam in the American history classroom -- Asian religious influences in American life -- Teaching American Judaism -- Part two: Teaching religion in American history in specific periods. Early Puritan colonies -- Teaching the First Great Awakening -- Was America founded as a Christian nation? -- Framing the constitutional principles governing religion in the early republic -- Religion and westward expansion -- The Bible and slavery before the Civil War -- What connections were there between imperialism and missionary activity? -- How did Christians respond to the industrial crisis of the Gilded Age? -- The prosperity gospel in US history and culture -- The effects of the fundamentalist modernist split -- How did the Depression change the relationship between church and state? -- Religion during World War II and the Cold War -- Religion and the civil rights movement.