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xiii Ac knowl edg ments This book would not have been pos sible with out the con tri bu tions of Har vey Goldberg’s for mer stu dents, who have gen er ously con trib uted time and money to sus tain his leg acy at both the Uni ver sity of Wis con sin and Ohio State Uni ver sity. The three of us all worked in the Har vey Gold berg Cen ter for Ex cel lence in Teach ing (then the Har vey Gold berg Pro gram) while grad u ate stu dents at OSU. It gave us a chance to learn about Har vey Gold berg and what he meant to his stu dents. It also gave us the op por tu nity to work with OSU fa culty mem bers and fel low grad u ate stu dents to be come bet ter teach ers. We ex tend our thanks to the de part ment chairs and pro fes sors who helped create and sus tain the Gold berg Pro gram: Mi chael Hogan, Leila Rupp, Ken neth An drien, Peter Hahn, Ste ven Conn, Saul Cor nell, Tim Greg ory, Mark Grim sley, Mar ga ret Ne well, Carla Pestana, and David Ste benne. The staff and fa culty board at the Uni ver sity of Wis con sin Press have been ad vo cates for this book since we first pro posed it. We would es pe cially like to thank Gwen Walker, An drea Chris tof fer son, and Sheila Leary for their com ments, ad vice, and sup port. This is a bet ter book be cause of them. We also wish to thank Adam Mehring, Marian Halls, Matthew Cosby, and Logan Middleton. Gwen de serves credit for sug gest ing that this book could be part of a se ries in honor of Har vey Gold berg. We are very glad she had such fore sight. We also want to ac knowl edge the es sen tial con tri bu tions made by the tal ented teach ers and schol ars who con trib uted es says for this vol ume. As is the case with most ed ited col lec tions, the authors’ di ver sity of inter ests, ex pe ri ences, and ex per tise has made this a more com plete and com plex vol ume than any one au thor could have pro duced. We es pe cially want to thank the au thors for their will ing ness to weave dis cus sions of con tent and ped a gogy to gether in ways that most had xiv acknowledgments not done be fore. Their thought ful ness and ea ger ness to write to our in tended au di ence of uni ver sity and high school teach ers made this a much stronger vol ume. We are thank ful for the sup port of the Har vey Gold berg Se ries Ad vi sory Board: Kevin Boyle, Ross Dunn, Leon Fink, Kim berly Ibach, Al fred McCoy, David Staley, Mag gie Tran, and Sam Wine burg. We look for ward to work ing with them as the se ries takes shape. The re view ers who read this man u script of fered a host of sug ges tions that helped us re fine our ap proach and make the vol ume more in for ma tive and use ful to teach ers. We thank them for the time and care they took to im prove each draft. Our re spec tive col leges and uni ver sities of fered sup port along the way. John was on a sab bat i cal leave from his teach ing du ties at Cen tral Con nec ti cut State Uni ver sity when he first thought of a book on teach ing the Viet nam War. His col leagues in the De part ment of His tory of fered val u able ad vice on both the book and the se ries. Mat thew was in spired by the many great teach ers at Saint An selm Col lege, es pe cially his col leagues in the his tory de part ment. He is grate ful for the fi nan cial sup port he re ceived from Father Au gus tine Kelly, dean of the col lege. Brad ben e fited from gen er ous travel fund ing pro vided by his de...