INTERNATIONALIZING OF THE STUDY OF AMERICAN HISTORY

How does one write about the histories of specific nations in the so-called age of globalization? More specifically, how does one write the national history of the United States, assuming such histories still have value? This is not to propose that global histories or international histories should replace national histories. As valuable as such histories may be, this Project on the Internationalizing of the Study of American History is not calling for the end of national histories. The issue is that of reframing national histories. Conceptually this is difficult; practically even more so.

Thus the Project’s mandate is to develop a strategy to advance an international perspective for the study of the history of the United States, thus situating it more fully into the larger transnational and global context, with the intention of revealing more clearly the multiple histories that constitute the American experience, each with different relations to the established geographical boundaries and to historical time. Given a growing consciousness of living in a global age marked by the extreme international mobility of people, ideas, and money, the aim of the Project is to define a history that would better explain the making of and experience in that world as it has unfolded historically.

PARTICIPANTS

Conference IV-2000

Thomas Bender US
Colleen Dunlavy, US
Mark Elliott, US
David Engerman, US
Betsy Esch, US
Erik McDuffie, US
Ferdinando Fasce, Italy
Jessica Gienow-Hecht, Germany
Michael Gomez, US
Jim Green, US
Carl Guarneri, US
Jurgen Herbst, US
Martha Hodes, US
Dirk Hoerder, US
David Hollinger, US
Walter Johnson, US
Rob Kroes, Netherlands
Molly Nolan, US
Thomas Osborne, US
David Stowe, US
Ian Tyrrell, Australia
Francois Weil, France
Marilyn Young, US

Conference III-1999

Tiziano Bonazzi, University of Bologna
Thomas Bender, New York University
Nicholas Canny, National University of Ireland, Galway
Nancy Cott, Yale University
Alan Dawley, College of New Jersey
Greg Dening, University of Melbourne
Eric Foner, Columbia University
Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
Ferdinando Fasce, University of Genoa
Jun Furuya, Hokkaido University
Lori Ginzberg, Pennsylvania State University
Dirk Hoerder, University of Bremen
Kristin Hoganson, Harvard University
Yukiki Koshiro, Notre Dame
Rob Kroes, University of Amsterdam
Karen Kupperman, New York University
Michael LaCombe, New York University
Lester D. Langley, University of Georgia
Molly McGarry, New York University
Donna Merwick, University of Melbourne
Carl Nightingale, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Thomas Osborne, College of Santa Ana*
Pablo Pozzi, University of Buenos Aires*
Jacques Revel, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Tricia Rose, New York University*
Daniel Rodgers, Princeton University
Nayan Shah, SUNY Binghamton
Robert Wiebe, Northwestern University
FranHois Weil, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Mari Yoshihara, University of Hawaii, Manoa
Marilyn Young, New York University

Conference II-1998

Willi Paul Adams, Germany
Mia Bay, US
Charles Bright, US
Francesca Lopez Civeira, Cuba
Prasenjit Duara, US
Ellen Carol DuBois, US
Mary Dudziak, US
David Engerman, US
Winfried Fluck, Germany
Carl Guarneri, US
Patrick Hagopian, Great Britain
Martha Hodes, US
Reynaldo Ileto, Philippines/Australia
Dolores Janiewski, New Zealand
Marcelo Jasmin, Brazil
Walter Johnson, US
Alessandra Lorini, Italy
James Mohr, US
Roy Rosenzweig, US
Mary Ryan, US
Barbara Clark Smith, US
Ian Tyrrell, Australia
Francois Weil, France
Richard White, US
Elizabeth Esch, US
Fanon Che Wilkens, US
Victoria Straughn, US
Thomas Bender, US

Conference I-1997

Thomas Bender, US
Philip Bonner, South Africa
William Chafe, US
Colleen Dunlavy, US
Ferdinando Fasce, Italy
George Frederickson, US
Fumiko Fujita, Japan
Michael Geyer, US
Christiane Harzig, Germany
Walter Johnson, US
Arnita Jones, US
Robert D.G. Kelley, US
Linda Kerber, US
Karen Kupperman, US
Ron Robin, Israel
John Rowett, England
Mauricio Tenorio, Mexico/US
David Thelen, US
Ian Tyrrell, Australia
Josefina Zoraida Vazquez, Mexico

FUNDERS

This Project has received generous funding from New York University, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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