Jackson Joseph Spielvogel (born 1939) is an associate professor emeritus at Pennsylvania State University. His textbooks are commonly used in high school and college Western Civilization classes. Spielvogel holds a Ph.D., from Ohio State University, and specialized in Reformation history under the supervision of Harold J. Grimm.
As a professor at Pennsylvania State University, he has been influential in the development of the Western civilization courses, and teaches a very popular course on Nazi Germany
His articles and reviews have appeared in journals such as the Morena, Journal of General Education, The Catholic Historical Review, Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte, The American Historical Review, and Utopian Studies. He has also been the contributor of various chapters or articles to The Social History of the Reformation, The Holy Roman Empire: A Dictionary Handbook, and the Simon Wiesenthal Center Annual of Holocaust Studies,. Much of his work has been the result of funding and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the Foundation for Reformation Research.
He has received five major university-wide awards in teaching, including the 1988-89 Penn State Teaching Fellowship, the most prestigious teaching award given by the university.
Spielvogel is the author of many textbooks that most commonly appear in high schools for instruction in the AP European History course, the equivalent of the Freshmen year of college, Western Civilization course. His book Hitler and Nazi Germany was first published in 1987, with the fourth edition published in 2001. Spielvogel is also the coauthor of World History, first published in 1998 with the third edition in 2001, and The Essential World History, first edition in 2002, with William J. Duiker. [1]
Historia universal de occidente, tomo 1, séptima edición, México, CENGAGE LEARNING, 2010, 442 págs.