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Spielvogel holds a Doctor of Philosophy, from Ohio State University, and specialized in Reformation history under the supervision of Harold J. Grimm.
His textbooks are commonly used in middle school, high school, and college Western Civilization classes. 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. His books focus teaching of European history due to his main studies of Reformation history.
However some of his works in World History can include magnificent writings on the Chinese and the Arab customs. Spielvogel was widely loved by his students and his classes were among the most popular at Penn State during his tenure.
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He would often begin his course Nazism and Fascism in Germany with music from Wagner or other classical music and he taught with passion, high energy, and the active participation of his students.