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Provides strategies for incorporating sports into any US history curriculum. Drawing on their own classroom experiences, the authors suggest creative ways to use sports as a lens to examine a broad range of historical subjects, including Puritan culture, the rise of Jim Crow, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the women’s movement.

Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
    Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Using Sports History to Teach American History
  • Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy
  • Part One: Modernization and Globalization
    Organized, Team, Sport: Teaching a Powerful American Idea
  • Marc Horger
  • Teaching Sports Scandals
  • Chris Elzey
  • “Ambassadors in Short Pants”: Sport and the Cold Warriors
  • Rita Liberti
  • The Shifting Geography of Professional Sports
  • Brad Austin
  • The Globalization of American Sport
  • Lars Dzikus and Adam Love
  • Part Two: Gender and Sexuality
    Issues of Sexuality in Sport
  • Sarah K. Fields
  • The Shaping of “Women’s Sport”
  • Pamela Grundy
  • Teaching Sports and Women’s History through “The Babe”
  • Susan E. Cayleff
  • Black Women Face Obstacles and Opportunities
  • Pamela Grundy and Rita Liberti
  • Title IX: Contested Terrain
  • Bobbi A. Knapp
  • Part Three: Race and Ethnicity
    Jim Crow at Play
  • Pamela Grundy
  • Race and Rebellion in the Progressive Era
  • Matthew Andrews
  • Teaching Black College Athletics: Challenges and Opportunities
  • Derrick E. White
  • Sports, Civil Rights, and Black Power
  • Lauren Morimoto
  • Diverse Experiences of Latino/a Athletes and Their Role in U.S. Sport History
  • Jorge Iber
  • What’s in a Name? Teaching the History of American Indian Mascots
  • Andrew Frank
  • Part Four: Case Studies
    Colonial Sporting Cultures
  • Brad Austin
  • Baseball and American Exceptionalism
  • Leslie Heaphy
  • NASCAR 101: Moonshine, Fast Cars, and Southern Working-Class Agency
  • Daniel Pierce
  • The Political Olympics
  • Derek Charles Catsam
  • Lights, Camera, Action: Teaching American Sport through Film
  • Ron Briley
  • Resources and Suggestions
  • Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy
  • Contributors
    Index

    Teaching U.S. History through Sports

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        Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
        Publication Date: 30/10/2022
        ISBN13: 9780299321246, 978-0299321246
        ISBN10: 029932124X
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        Description

        Book Synopsis
        Provides strategies for incorporating sports into any US history curriculum. Drawing on their own classroom experiences, the authors suggest creative ways to use sports as a lens to examine a broad range of historical subjects, including Puritan culture, the rise of Jim Crow, the Cold War, the civil rights movement, and the women’s movement.

        Table of Contents
        • List of Illustrations
          Acknowledgments
        • Introduction: Using Sports History to Teach American History
        • Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy
        • Part One: Modernization and Globalization
          Organized, Team, Sport: Teaching a Powerful American Idea
        • Marc Horger
        • Teaching Sports Scandals
        • Chris Elzey
        • “Ambassadors in Short Pants”: Sport and the Cold Warriors
        • Rita Liberti
        • The Shifting Geography of Professional Sports
        • Brad Austin
        • The Globalization of American Sport
        • Lars Dzikus and Adam Love
        • Part Two: Gender and Sexuality
          Issues of Sexuality in Sport
        • Sarah K. Fields
        • The Shaping of “Women’s Sport”
        • Pamela Grundy
        • Teaching Sports and Women’s History through “The Babe”
        • Susan E. Cayleff
        • Black Women Face Obstacles and Opportunities
        • Pamela Grundy and Rita Liberti
        • Title IX: Contested Terrain
        • Bobbi A. Knapp
        • Part Three: Race and Ethnicity
          Jim Crow at Play
        • Pamela Grundy
        • Race and Rebellion in the Progressive Era
        • Matthew Andrews
        • Teaching Black College Athletics: Challenges and Opportunities
        • Derrick E. White
        • Sports, Civil Rights, and Black Power
        • Lauren Morimoto
        • Diverse Experiences of Latino/a Athletes and Their Role in U.S. Sport History
        • Jorge Iber
        • What’s in a Name? Teaching the History of American Indian Mascots
        • Andrew Frank
        • Part Four: Case Studies
          Colonial Sporting Cultures
        • Brad Austin
        • Baseball and American Exceptionalism
        • Leslie Heaphy
        • NASCAR 101: Moonshine, Fast Cars, and Southern Working-Class Agency
        • Daniel Pierce
        • The Political Olympics
        • Derek Charles Catsam
        • Lights, Camera, Action: Teaching American Sport through Film
        • Ron Briley
        • Resources and Suggestions
        • Brad Austin and Pamela Grundy
        • Contributors
          Index

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