ABSTRACT
A social studies approach to global history is based on the idea that teachers need to balance the breadth of historical coverage with occasional in-depth case studies. A social studies approach to teaching global history is directly concerned with ideas and issues being discussed, rather than just a compilation of events from the past. Many prominent historians, while reflecting on the historical process, have emphasized the importance of questioning. Marc Bloch was a French historian during the first half of the 20th century whose area of expertise was European feudal society. There are a number of problems with the traditional global history curriculum, and the most challenging problem is probably the wealth of possible detail to include in a crowded curriculum. A second problem is that most social studies teachers in the United States have significantly more extensive background in European and United States history than in the history of the non-Western world.
