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What Baseball Reveals About Teaching American History

Turn cultural moments into powerful teaching moments

  • Webinar
  • Higher Education
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  • Virtual
  • History-American History
  • 45 Minutes
  • Live Webinar

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Join David M. Henkin, McGraw Hill author of Becoming America for a live virtual discussion on how baseball can unlock deeper student engagement in American History.

More than a sport, baseball offers a powerful lens into questions of identity, power, culture, and globalization, helping students connect course concepts to the world they already know.

You’ll discover practical ways to:

  • Spark richer classroom discussions.
  • Connect historical content to contemporary culture.
  • Help students see the relevance of history in their own lives.

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About Your Speaker

  • David Henkin -

    David Henkin

    Since David Henkin joined the history faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1997, he has taught and written about the sorts of subjects that rarely make it into traditional textbooks. He has offered entire courses on baseball, Broadway, immigration, time, leisure, the road,
    family life, news, and urban literature while publishing books and essays about street signs, paper money, junk mail, intimate correspondence, calendars, and temporal rhythms in the nineteenth century. The task of integrating that kind of material into the traditional narrative of the
    American past has been the singular challenge of his professional life. David holds a BA from Yale University and a PhD from U.C. Berkeley, and he was awarded Berkeley’s Distinguished Teaching Award in the Social Sciences.

    Beyond the Berkeley campus, David teaches classes on the Talmud, plays cards, eats lots of fish and berries, and roots passionately for the St. Louis Cardinals. Raised in New York, where his family still lives, he makes his home with friends and community in San Francisco.