Ross Dunn

San Diego State University | SDSU · Department of History

Reports on the controversy about the National History Standards, released in 1994 as part of the Goals 2000 program. Argues that the standards encourage critical thinking skills, active learning, use of primary sources, and integration of art and literature into history. (CFR)

Discusses the controversy surrounding the National Standards for World History and the National Standards for United States History. Maintains that people are finding out how unjust the criticism of the History Standards is. Includes supportive quotes about the standards from teachers and historians. (CFR)

This work is a study of African responses to European conquest in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, centering on the farming, herding, and trading peoples of Southeastern Morocco, a region that the French army, advancing from French Algeria, progressively seized between 1881 and 1912.

In this biography set in the interconnected and cosmopolitan Muslim lands in the fourteenth century, Ross Dunn recounts extraordinary travels of the Moroccan lawyer Ibn Battuta from one end of the Eastern Hemisphere to the other. "An excellent synoptic introduction to the Muslim world in the Middle Ages." The Times Literary Supplement.

The New World History: A Field Guide for Teachers and Researchers is a comprehensive volume of essays that aims to enrich world history teaching and scholarship. A body of professional literature addressing problems of defining, conceptualizing, and structuring world history as both a classroom and research field has developed rapidly during the pa...

In recounting the sensational national controversy regarding the recent proposed National History Standards, the book explores three related themes that provided background for the controversy. The volume examines the blossoming of historical research, writing, and teaching of history in the 20th century with more diverse, more methodologically sop...