Teaching Atlantic History

November 7-8, 1998

Saturday, November 7

Session I – Approaching It

"Atlantic History: The View from the Moon"

Bernard Bailyn, Harvard University

Session II – Teaching It

"Four Overviews"

     David Armitage, Columbia University

     Rosalind J. Beiler, University of Central Florida

     Alison Games, Georgetown University

     Mark Peterson, University of Iowa

Session III – Getting At It

     The European Diaspora: Creoles and the Metropolises

     Subaltern Peoples: Facts and Images

     The African Diaspora

     The Commercial System(s)

     Empires: Forms of Governance

     The Revolutionary International: "Democratic Revolutions"?

Sunday, November 8

Session IV – Illustrating It

"Materials, Verbal and Otherwise"

Session V – Conclusion

"The Inland Sea of Western Civilization?"