A collection of our foreign affairs webinars, chosen specifically for America’s educators.
Foreign Affairs: An American Contradiction Now, perhaps more than ever, we see that the global community is surprisingly small. While the United States’ role in it has at times retracted or expanded, Americans themselves have always looked beyond their own borders, vigorously participating in a global network of trade, diplomacy, and intellectual exchanges. The Founders may have advised Americans to steer clear of foreign quarrels, but the tension between these two tendencies has been a constant source of discussion and debate in American history. Revisit the questions of American’s place in the world with your students through these content-rich archived resources from Teaching American History.
TAH’s Webinars Our webinars are a conversation about critical questions between two scholars and a moderator, with questions from the live audience. The discussion is rooted in a set of primary documents published on this site in advance of each program. Many teachers around the country have used these to provide historical background students can access at home. They’ve used these webinars in “flipped” classroom formats and to help students who missed lessons due to absence.
These can be accessed without any form of registration. Each link gives you access to the documents discussed during the webinar, a video of the webinar on our YouTube channel, and our podcast archive of each episode.
Enduring Questions in American Foreign Policy * American Controversies: Do American Principles Require American Interventionism? * American Presidency: Presidential War, Emergency, and Foreign Policy Powers * Great American Debates: Imperialists vs Non-Interventionists
Approaches to Foreign Affairs in Early America * Documents in Detail: George Washington’s Farewell Address * Documents in Detail: The Monroe Doctrine
Foreign Affairs in the Time of Empire * Documents in Detail: TR’s Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine * Documents in Detail: Wilson’s 14 Points Message * Moments of Crisis: Sinking of the USS Maine
Foreign Affairs during Conflict: World War II * Heroes of World War II * Moments of Crisis: Attack on Pearl Harbor
Foreign Affairs in a Bipolar World: The Cold War * Defining Moments of the Twentieth Century: How Best to Deal with the Soviet Union and the Spread of Communism * Documents in Detail: The Long Telegram * Moments of Crisis: Cuban Missile Crisis
Conflict in the Modern Era * Moments of Crisis: Iran Hostage Crisis
If you’d like to be part of the conversation at our next online seminar, please register for our event on April 23rd, “Wartime Diplomacy: FDR, Churchill and Stalin.” We also have a wide variety of Spring 2022 in-person seminars scheduled around the country. Register today!
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