Professor Rosenberg will answer questions and lead a discussion on teaching about U.S. imperialism. The discussion will focus particularly on approaches to teaching imperialism in U.S. history survey courses at the high school and college levels and include suggestions for resources or strategies.

Emily S. Rosenberg, DeWitt Wallace Professor of History at Macalester College, specializes in United States foreign relations in the twentieth century. She is the author of the widely-used book Spreading the American Dream: American Economic and Cultural Expansion, 1890-1945 and, most recently, of Financial Missionaries to the World: The Politics and Culture of Dollar Diplomacy, 1900-1930, which won the Ferrell Senior Book award from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations in 2000. She has co-authored several textbooks, among them In Our Times: America Since 1945 and Liberty, Equality, Power: A History of the American People, and written numerous articles on international finance, gender issues, and foreign relations.

History Mattersis a gateway to the Web for teachers of the U.S. History Survey course. It provides high school and college teachers (and their students) a starting point for exploring American history on the Web with a large number of first-person historical documents for use in the classroom, an extensive annotated list of Web links, and a range of teaching resources (sample syllabi, teaching assignments, and forums, for example). History Matters is a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning of the City University of New York and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The History MattersWeb site was created with support from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. The site is an in-progress prototype that will be expanding over the next two years.