TY - JOUR
AU - Wood, Molly M.
AB - “Spanning the Globe to Bring You the Constant Variety of Sports”: Teaching the United States and the World in the Cold War Molly M. Wood One of the challenges we face in teaching the Cold War is accurately illustrating and helping students understand the emotional and sometimes-intangible featur -es of inces sant international tension. Personal responses to the threats posed during the Cold War included a heightened competitive spirit, intensie fi d passions associated with national identity, loyalty, allegiances and pride, the need to feel prepared for the unknown, and feelings of uncertainty or nervousness, all of which can be associated with the ever- shifting series of crises around the globe. Sports might help students achiev-e deeper un derstandings because, as the historian Thomas Zeiler notes, “the history of all sports is deeply embedded in politics, society, and culture.” In my United States since 1 - 945 gen eral education survey class, which I teach with a United States and the world focus, I find that examining athletic competition is an effective way to help students develop a greater appreciation of America’s place in the world in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Connecting selected sporting events from the Cold 
TI - “Spanning the Globe to Bring You the Constant Variety of Sports”: Teaching the United States and the World in the Cold War
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaw509
DA - 2017-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/spanning-the-globe-to-bring-you-the-constant-variety-of-sports-Q6aP9v6ldw
SP - 1004
EP - 1011
VL - 103
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -