A "great roads" approach to teaching modern world history and Latin American regional survey courses: a Veracruz to Mexico City case study.

From: Teaching History: A Journal of Methods | Date: September 22, 2002| Author: Brown, James Seay, Jr.; Sullivan-Gonzalez, Douglass | Copyright information

In January of 2000, the authors of this article made a ten-day field trip along Mexico's Veracruz to Mexico City corridor, with notebooks, detailed maps, and digital camera in hand. This was all in support of their recent experience in teaching history survey courses on their respective campuses. Jim Brown of Samford University has been developing interactive three-dimensional topography models as a basis for his sophomore modern world history course. Doug Sullivan-Gonzalez, Latin ...

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