![]() ![]() ![]() In 1996, he won the Dean Arthur Ray Warnock Award for Outstanding Faculty member, and in 2000 received the Schreyer Honors College Excellence in Teaching Award. During the year 1988-1989, he held the Penn State Teaching Fellowship, the university's most prestigious teaching award. Professor Spielvogel has won five major university-wide teaching awards. The term Western Civilization refers broadly to a constellation of customs, beliefs, political systems, and events rooted in European history and Western culture. ![]() He is the co-author (with William Duiker) of WORLD HISTORY, first published in January 1994 (Sixth Edition, 2010). His book HITLER AND NAZI GERMANY was published in 1987 (Fifth Edition, 2005). At Penn State, he helped inaugurate the Western civilization courses as well as a popular course on Nazi Germany. His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as "Moreana," "Journal of General Education," "Catholic Historical Review," "Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte," and "American Historical Review." He has also contributed chapters or articles to "The Social History of Reformation," THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE: A DICTIONARY HANDBOOK, "Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual of Holocaust Studies," and "Utopian Studies." His work has been supported by fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Foundation for Reformation Research. from The Ohio State University, where he specialized in Reformation history under Harold J. Schmidt, says this about the profound impact Christianity has had on the development of Western Civilization: No other religion, philosophy, teaching, nation, movementwhateverhas so changed the world for the better as Christianity has done. Spielvogel is associate professor emeritus of history at The Pennsylvania State University. ![]()
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