Teaching History: A Journal of Methods articles from March 2003

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from March 2003

Exploring the Atlantic World: an experiment in teaching an emerging paradigm.
March 22, 2003... Why the Atlantic World? "The Atlantic World" is an emerging perspective in early American history, one that blends nicely with contemporary interest in globalization. (1) This field is an exploration of connections that formed among...

Using local history to understand national themes: the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia in 1793.
March 22, 2003... College teachers of American history cover national themes such as the nature of the American Revolution and the establishment of the federal government because students must understand them if they are to gain a reliable knowledge of America's...

Collecting stories about strip-mining: using oral history in the classroom.
March 22, 2003... The study of history has always been an interdisciplinary exercise that borrows generously from the methods and insights provided by other disciplines, but the narrative method continues to remain central to the discipline of history. Telling...

Using first-person sources to teach the Vietnam war.
March 22, 2003... As an avid proponent of student-active teaching pedagogy, one of the various methods that I employ is to build an entire course around discussion of a body of readings. First-person sources serve as one of the best media for this approach. Two...

A teaching note: getting started in a course on historical method.
March 22, 2003... All teachers teach method as well as content, whether they intend to or not. Therefore, we should teach method explicitly. If we don't, students are likely to learn passive and sloppy methods and not know the...

Stephen P. Thompson, ed. The Renaissance.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2000. Pp. 272. Paper, $14.96; ISBN 0-7377-0218-4. In The Renaissance, Stephen P. Thompson has compiled 21 articles divided into five chapters: The Origins of the Renaissance, Political and Social...

Clarice Swisher, ed. Victorian England.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2000. Pp. 263. Cloth, $24.96; ISBN 0-7377-0221-4. Paper, $15.96; ISBN 0-7377-0220-6. In the last 500 years, England has been headed by 23 monarchs, six of whom were women. Two of these women, Elizabeth...

Moira Donald & Tim Rees, eds., Reinterpreting Revolution in Twentieth-Century Europe.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001. Pp. vi, 242. Cloth $69.95; ISBN 0312-23622-0. Paper, $21.95; ISBN 0-312-23623-9. Understanding the recent past is often much harder for historians than seeing the far past clearly. One of the many...

Link Hullar & Scott Nelson. The United States: A Brief Narrative History.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2001. Pp. xii, 211. Paper, $14.95; ISBN 0-88295-959-X. The United States: A Brief Narrative History is accurately titled. In fifteen compact chapters and 177 pages, professors Hullar and Nelson have...

William F. Deverell & Anne F. Hyde, eds. The West in the History of the Nation: A Reader.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. Vol. I: To 1877. Pp. xvi, 332. Paper, $37.65; ISBN 0-312-19171-5. Vol. II: Since 1865. Pp. xvii, 301. Paper, $37.65; ISBN 0-312-19211-8. The West in the History of the Nation is an excellent new primary...

Anne Enslow & Ridley Enslow. Music of the American Colonies.(Sound Recording Review)
March 22, 2003... Music CD, 61-page Booklet & Teacher's Guide. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, Inc., 2000. 61 minutes. Ages: 10-up. $24.95; ISBN 0-7660-1614-5. Order from Enslow Publishers, Inc., Box 398, 40 Industrial Rd., Berkeley Heights, NJ 07922....

Thomas P. Slaughter, ed. Common Sense and Related Writings, by Thomas Paine.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001. Pp. xv, 152. Cloth, $45.00; ISBN 0-312-23704-9. Paper, $13.50; ISBN 0-312-20148-6. Thomas Paine occupies an odd, somewhat uncomfortable, place in the history of the American Revolution. In...

Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., ed. Jefferson vs. Hamilton: Confrontations That Shaped a Nation.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. Pp. xiii, 186. Cloth, $35.00; ISBN 0-312-22821-X. Paper, $14.20; ISBN 0-312-08585-0. Ask undergraduates about Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton and they will probably tell you that...

Michael P. Johnson, ed. Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001. Pp. xx, 358. Cloth, $39.95; ISBN 0-312-22763-9. Paper, $14.20; ISBN 0-312-20854-5. With the ready availability of so many thoughtful and finely crafted studies on Abraham Lincoln, does the...

Sam Roberts. The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New York: Random House, 2001. Pp. 543. Cloth, $35.00; IBN 0-375-50013-8. David Greenglass will be remembered forever as the atomic spy who betrayed his sister, Ethel Rosenberg, assured a guilty verdict in her (and her husband's) treason...

Vincent J. Cannato. The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... New York: Basic Books, 2001. Pp. 720. Cloth, $35.00; ISBN: 0-465-00843-7. Despite its unchallenged position as America's preeminent city, the scholarly literature devoted to New York City's history is relatively sparse. The one book that...