Paper: Globalizing the Heartland: Bringing a Transnational Focus to Midwestern History in the US Survey Classroom (132nd Annual Meeting (January 4-7, 2018))

Friday, January 5, 2018: 9:10 AM

Delaware Suite A (Marriott Wardman Park)

Timothy Dean Draper, Waubonsee Community College

In “Globalizing the Heartland: Bringing a Transnational Focus to Midwestern History in the U.S. Survey Classroom,” Timothy Dean Draper (Waubonsee Community College) will discuss the ways in which historians may connect Midwestern regional history with a broader global perspective. With a particular focus on Illinois and Chicago in particular, Draper will examine topics in place naming, ethno-racial relations, immigration, commerce, architecture, literature among others.

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