#  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?"