College Level:
Research and Creations in World History

1) College Classes taught (Fall 1999/Spring 2000)
2) Reports
3) Papers/Presentations
4) Recent Book Reviews

1. College Classes
   a. World History Since 1500  at North Georgia College and State University and Gainesville College
   b. American History at Gainesville College
   c. Early Chinese History at North Georgia College and State University

2. Reports:
   a. A professional development report for the Education department at North Georgia College and State University on the Annual meeting of the Southeast World History Association October 23-24 at Clayton College and State University, Morrow Georgia: "More of the World into Teaching World History"

3. Papers and Presentations:
   a. "Twentieth Century Currents: 'Race' and 'Nation' Across the World Wars" is a two part paper I prepared for an independent study course for my teacher certification program at North Georgia College and State University.
     The first part, 'Race' focuses especially on a collection of  Second World War magazine comics in Japan and America John W. Dower's War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (Pantheon: 1986). I started to develop the presentation into a full-fledged paper and have added some new sources and commentary to the original presentation.
     The second part, 'Nation,' is related to the first part because national identifies in most industrialized nations through the First and Second World Wars were closely tied to the still popular Social Darwinian pseudo-science of the late nineteenth century. This paper attempts to trace the developments in our conception of nation by reviewing two prominent books in the field by Eric Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism: Programme, Myth, Reality (Cambridge: 1990), by Eric Hobsbawm, and Nationalism and Modernism (Routledge: 1998), by Anthony D. Smith. To test their different views of the nation and nationalism, I apply their theories to consider the Serbia/Kosova crisis, and to home-front America during the First World War as researched in the chapter "The War for the American Mind," in David M. Kennedy's Over Here: The First World War and American Society (Oxford: 1980).
   Part One: 'Race'
   Part Two: 'Nation'

4. Book Reviews
   Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Internee's Memoir of World War II, by Mark Lynton (The Overlook Press: 1995) here
   War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War, by John W. Dower (Pantheon: 1986) here

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