Publications
Books
Finding God through Yoga: Paramahansa Yogananda and Modern American Religion in a Global Age, University of North Carolina Press (March 2019).
Primary Author, Teacher’s Edition, America’s History for the AP Course, 9th ed. (2018).
Articles and Chapters
“Paramahansa Yogananda,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, DeGruyter (forthcoming).
“Ram Mohun Roy,” in Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, DeGruyter (forthcoming).
“Rethinking the Role of Direct Instruction in History Education,” Social Education (forthcoming).
“Christian Missionary Efforts in India,” in Andrew Holt, ed., Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, ABC-Clio (forthcoming).
“Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar and the Dalit Buddhist Movement (1956),” in Andrew Holt, ed., Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, ABC-Clio (forthcoming).
“Compilation of the Bhagavad-Gita (2nd Century BCE-3rd Century CE),” in Andrew Holt, ed., Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, ABC-Clio (forthcoming).
“Compilation of the Upanishads,” in Andrew Holt, ed., Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, ABC-Clio (forthcoming).
“Development of Synagogues as Centers of Jewish Religious Life (1st Century BCE to 1st Century CE),” in Andrew Holt, ed., Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, ABC-Clio (forthcoming).
“Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls (1947),” in Andrew Holt, ed., Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, ABC-Clio (forthcoming).
“Great Jewish Revolt (66-70),” in Andrew Holt, ed., Religion and World Civilizations: How Faith Shaped Societies from Antiquity to the Present, ABC-Clio (forthcoming).
“Are We Living in This Material Age, Or Are We Dreaming?”: Autobiography of a Yogi as Sacred Text,” in Susanne Scholz and Caroline Vander Stichele, eds., Sacred Texts and Contemporary Yoga Practice, Routledge (forthcoming).
“‘A Definitive but Unsatisfying Answer:’ Evangelical Response to Gay Christians,” Religion and American Culture 31 (Spring 2022).
“Ananda,” in World Religions and Spirituality Project, edited by David Bromley, https://wrldrels.org/2021/11/
10/ananda-2/ (November 2021).
“The Father of Modern India and the Son of God: Rammohun Roy’s Jesus Christ,” Journal of Religious History 45 (September 2021): 367-89.
“Christ as Yogi: The Jesus of Vivekananda and Modern Hinduism,” Church History 90 (March 2021): 117-140.
“Presenting Historical Content: The Inquiry Connections of a Neglected Practice,” The Social Studies 112 (March 2021): 231-46.
“International Guru as Local Swami: Paramahansa Yogananda and the Religious Culture of Southern California,” in Richard Flory and Diane Winston, eds., Religion in Los Angeles: Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity in the Global City, Routledge (2021), 45-57.
“‘The Distance Yet to Be Traveled:’ Second Baptist Church and Civil Rights, 1941-1963,” in Richard Flory and Diane Winston, eds., Religion in Los Angeles: Religious Activism, Innovation, and Diversity in the Global City, Routledge (2021), 86-97.
“A Feeling for the Past: The Role of Emotion in History Education,” Social Education 83 (October 2019): 276-280.
“Textbooks in the Balance: An Insider’s Review of the History-Social Science Textbook Adoption Process
in California,” The History Teacher 52 (August 2019): 653-676.
“Australia and the United States: Comparisons and Conjunctions Between Settler Societies in the Pacific World,” World History Connected 16 (June 2019), https://worldhistoryconnected.press.uillinois.edu/
16.2/index.html.
“Inquiry and Axial Age Religion: The Rise of Christianity as a Case Study,” World History Bulletin 35 (Spring 2019).
“Domestic Security: Defending the Evangelical Home in the Southern California Sunbelt,” The Journal of Religious History 43 (March 2019): 83-107.
“‘Development of Body, Mind, and Soul:’ Paramahansa Yogananda’s Marketing of Yoga-Based Religion,” Religion and American Culture 29 (January 2019): 65-101.
“A Respectable Militancy: Rev. J. Raymond Henderson and the Civil Rights Struggle in Los Angeles, 1941-1963,” Southern California Quarterly 100 (Winter 2019): 471-504.
“‘I Just Want to Do God’s Will:’ Teaching Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Religious Leader,” The Social Studies 109 (March 2018): 45-56.
“Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Skills for AP World History,” published in Advanced Placement editions of America’s History, History of Western Society, Ways of the World, Worlds of History, Bedford-St. Martins (2018).
“Cold War Home Front: Making Connections to Local History,” Social Education 81 (November 2017): 362-67.
“Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Skills for AP History Courses,” published in Advanced Placement editions of America’s History, History of Western Society, Ways of the World, Worlds of History, Bedford-St. Martins (2015-17).
“Secondary Sources in History Classrooms: Disciplinary Frameworks and Student Learning,” Social Education 79 (September 2015): 204-210.
“Context: The Foundation for the Close Reading of Primary Source Texts” (with Nicole Gilbertson and Lisa
Hutton), Social Studies Research and Practice (July 2014), http://www.socstrpr.org/wp-content/uploads/
2014/09/MS06548_Neumann.pdf
“Against the Grain: Teaching Historical Complexity,” Social Education 77 (November/December 2013): 310-313.
“Historical Thinking, Reading, and Writing Skills for AP World History,” published in Advanced Placement editions of America’s History, History of Western Society, Ways of the World, Worlds of History, Bedford-St. Martins (2012-14).
“Teachers as Mediators of Conceptual Complexity in World History,” World History Connected 9 (October 2012), http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/9.3/index.html.
“Flip-Flopping, Presidential Politics, and Abraham Lincoln,” Social Education 76 (2012): 176-179.
“Through Historians’ Eyes: How to Change the Way Students View Primary Sources,” The National Social Studies Supervisors Association Leader 26 (Spring 2012): 20-25.
“The State of K-12 History Education” (with Tim Keirn and Lisa Hutton), Perspectives on History 49 (May 2012): 17-19.
“Training Teachers to Think Historically: Applying Recent Research on Teaching and Learning to Professional Development,” The History Teacher 45 (May 2012): 383-403.
“Solving Problems by Creating Problems: Building Coherence in History Through Inquiry,” Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 36 (Fall 2011): 84-96.
“In Defense of Memorization: The Role of Periodization in Historical Inquiry,” Social Education 75 (September 2011): 208-217.
“A Different Way of Viewing History Teaching: Balancing Competing Intellectual Challenges,” Social Education 74 (September 2010): 184-188.
“‘What is the Text Doing?’ Preparing Pre-service Teachers to Teach Primary Sources Effectively,” The History
Teacher 43 (August 2010): 489-511.
“The Challenges of Primary Sources, Collaboration, and the K-16 Elizabeth Murray Project” (with Patricia Cleary), The History Teacher 43 (November 2009): 67-86.
