Teaching History: A Journal of Methods articles from March 2000

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from March 2000

TEACHING HISTORY AT TWENTY-FIVE YEARS.
March 22, 2000... In history twenty-five years is a mere blink in time. In the journal world, twenty-five years can be an eternity. Every year fledgling journals and magazines rise and fall. Some make it to a second year, a few stay for a third, but many of them...

EVERYBODY TALKS: DISCUSSION STRATEGIES IN THE CLASSROOM.
March 22, 2000... The year is 800 CE. A group of early Muslims meets in one part of the room. Their task is at once simple and complex. They must convince a group of pagans to convert to Islam. At the opposite side of the room, a group of early Christians is...

READING, WRITING AND WALKING: STUDENT PROJECTS LINKING PRIMARY DOCUMENTS, CLASSROOM LEARNING, AND HISTORICAL SITES.
March 22, 2000... Introduction Virtually every instructor who teaches history survey courses has straggled with issues of time constraint at one time or another. Choices between sufficient content coverage, in-depth analysis of crucial issues, connections...

IMPROVING STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN HISTORY LECTURES: SUGGESTIONS FOR SUCCESSFUL QUESTIONING.
March 22, 2000... For years I have worked with beginning history and social studies teachers at both the K-12 and college levels. Hundreds of observations have illustrated for me that one of the most difficult and common problems faced by novice teachers is...

A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Pereoco, James A. A Passion for the Past: Creative Teaching of U.S. History. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998. Pp. xxiv, 149. Paper, $17.50; ISBN 0-325-00061-1. One of the problems facing history/social studies methods instructors is the...

A Short History of Europe: From the Greeks and Romans to Present Day.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Antony Alcock. A Short History of Europe: From the Greeks and Romans to Present Day. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. x, 304. Cloth, $59.95; ISBN 0-312-21003-5. Paper, $18.95; ISBN 0-312-21036-1. Antony Alcock has managed to narrate...

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present.(Review)
March 22, 2000... William Woodruff. A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Second edition. Pp. xii, 401. Paper, $18.95; ISBN 0-312-21332-8. It would be difficult to imagine how anyone could write a...

Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Lester K. Little & Barbara H. Rosenwein, eds. Debating the Middle Ages: Issues and Readings. Williston, VT: Blackwell Publishers, 1998. Pp. xi, 396. Cloth, $64.95; ISBN 1-57718-007-0. This excellent book would be very useful for students in...

Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Henrietta Leyser. Medieval Women: A Social History of Women in England 450-1500. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. Pp. vii, 337. Paper, $17.95; ISBN 0-312-21279-8. In the past decade, works investigating the contribution and place of...

Europe Under Napoleon, 1799-1815.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Michael Broers. Europe Under Napoleon, 1799-1815. London and New York: Arnold, 1996. Pp. xii, 291. Cloth, $49.95; ISBN 0-340-66265-4. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-340-66264-6. Do we need yet another book on Napoleon? Michael Broers answers, not...

France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Michael Burns. France and the Dreyfus Affair: A Documentary History. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xiv, 210. Cloth, $39.95; ISBN 0-312-21813-3. One driven to bed by a chronic illness endures both pain and the prolongation of...

Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Barry Reay. Popular Cultures in England 1550-1750. London & New York: Longman, 1998. Pp. ix, 235. Paper, $18.95; ISBN 0-582-48954-7. If you can tell a book by its cover, then the covers of these two books reveal the differences in their...

Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Society.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Gordon Marsden, ed. Victorian Values: Personalities and Perspectives in Nineteenth-Century Society. London & New York: Longman, 1998. Second edition. Pp. xi, 292. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-582-29289-1. If you can tell a book by its cover, then...

Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev.(Review)
March 22, 2000... R.W. Davies. Soviet Economic Development from Lenin to Khrushchev. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. 82. Cloth, $39.95; ISBN 0-521-62260-3. Paper, $11.95; ISBN 0-521-62742-7. Each of these books is part of a series...

The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Raymond Pearson. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998. Pp. 138. Cloth, $55.00; ISBN 0-312-17405-5. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-312-17407-1. Each of these books is part of a series written to provide succinct...

The McGuffey Readers: Selections from the 1879 Edition.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Elliott J. Gorn, ed. The McGuffey Readers: Selections from the 1879 Edition. Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998. Pp. xv, 202. Cloth, $35.00; ISBN 0-312-1766-6. Paper, $7.50; ISBN 0-312-13398-7. This compact and, in its paperback...

U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Robert D. Schulzinger. U.S. Diplomacy Since 1900. New York, NY & Oxford, UK, 1998. Fourth edition. Pp. ix, 437. Cloth, $21.95; ISBN 0-19-510631-8. Robert Schulzinger has done it again. In this, the fourth edition of his survey of United...

America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Robert H. Abzug. America Views the Holocaust, 1933-1945: A Brief Documentary History. Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xv, 236. Cloth, $39.95; ISBN 0-312-21819-2. The contemporaries of the Holocaust are often divided...

A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother's Holocaust Letters.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Renata Polt, trans, and ed. A Thousand Kisses: A Grandmother's Holocaust Letters. Tuscaloosa & London: University of Alabama Press, 1999. Pp. xvii, 210. Cloth, $29.95; ISBN 0-8173-0930-6. The contemporaries of the Holocaust are often...

The Cold War: An International History 1947-1991.(Review)
March 22, 2000... S.J. Ball. The Cold War: An International History 1947-1991. London & New York: Arnold, 1998. Pp. xii, 260. Cloth, $49.95; ISBN 0-340-64546-6. Paper, $18.95; ISBN 0-340-59168-4. Now that the Cold War is "history," a spate of works are...

LETTER TO THE EDITOR.(Review)
March 22, 2000... The Fall 1999 issue of Teaching History (pp. 103-104) included Kelly A. Woestman's review of Four Dead in Ohio: Was There a Conspiracy at Kent State? by William A. Gordon. In the following letter, Gordon offers his counterpoint to the Woestman...