Jackson J. Spielvogel | |
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| Born | 1939 (age 85–86) |
| Occupation | Associate Professor Emeritus of History |
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| Alma mater | Ohio State University, Ohio |
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| Discipline | Historic Knowledge |
| Institutions | Pennsylvania State University, Professor |
| Notable works | Western Civilization,World History |
Jackson Joseph Spielvogel isAssociate ProfessorEmeritus of History atPennsylvania State University.[1] His textbooks onworld history,Western civilization andNazi Germany are widely adopted inmiddle school,high school, andcollege history courses throughout the United States. Spielvogel holds aPh.D. fromOhio State University where he specialized inReformationhistory under the supervision ofHarold J. Grimm.
As a professor atPennsylvania State University, Spielvogel was influential in the development of university's Western civilization curricula and he authored best-selling textbooks on the subject.[2] Throughout his teaching career, Spielvogel was widely known for his popular History 143: History of Nazism and Fascism course, which attracted thousands of students over the decades in which he taught it.[3][4]
His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as theMorena, Journal of General Education,The Catholic Historical Review,Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte,The American Historical Review, andUtopian Studies. He has also been the contributor of various chapters or articles toThe Social History of the Reformation,The Holy Roman Empire: A Dictionary Handbook, and theSimon Wiesenthal Center Annual of Holocaust Studies. In addition to funding and fellowships he earned from theFulbright Foundation and theFoundation for Reformation Research, Spielvogel won five major teaching awards at Penn State including the university's most prestigious teaching award in 1988-1989, the Penn State Teaching Fellowship.[5]
Spielvogel is the author of several textbooks commonly used in both college history and high schoolAPEuropean History courses, includingWestern Civilization, and he has also adapted his historical work for elementary and middle school textbooks. His bookHitler and Nazi Germany was first published in 1987, with recent editions coauthored by David Redles. Along withWilliam J. Duiker, he is also the co-author ofWorld History andThe Essential World History, both in their ninth editions.[6]
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