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Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from March 2008
Historiography as pedagogy: thoughts about the messy past and why we shouldn't clean it up.
March 22, 2008... Historiography is vital to our teaching about the past and to our understanding of the present, though you would not always know as much from the practices of K-16 history educators. (1) When I began my first full-time position as a college...
How I learned to stop worrying and love the survey.
March 22, 2008... When I finished graduate studies with a fresh Ph.D. in hand, I set out to conquer the world of academia. (1) I counted myself among the fortunate ones. I had a full-time job, one that would enable me to give up my adjunct workload of five or...
Encouraging students to read the texts: the jigsaw method.
March 22, 2008... "The information in the book will be on the exam" is probably the most common technique used to inspire college history students to read assigned texts. Unfortunately, this vague threat does not always encourage students to read and analyze the...
Incorporating films into a history classroom: a teaching note.
March 22, 2008... While reading and writing remain at the core of the history classes that I teach, it is simply a fact of life that, as Robert Toplin and Robert Rosenstone have argued persuasively, students tend to receive most of their history through film and...
Unshuttered lens: Dorothea Lange, documentary photography, and government work, 1935-1945.(TEACHING WITH ONLINE PRIMARY SOURCES: DOCUMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES)
March 22, 2008... In November 1940, on Arizona State Highway 87, south of Chandler, in Maricopa County, Dorothea Lange took a photograph of a mother and four small children. Caught in the powerful forces of the Great Depression, this migrant family's plight was...
The Battle of Chernobyl.(Video recording review)
March 22, 2008... The Battle of Chernobyl, First Run Icarus Films. Directed by Thomas Johnson. U.S., 2007; color; 94 minutes. VHS, DVD $440.00. Rental/VHS: $125.
In the early morning hours of 26 April 1986, in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, a reactor at the...
Barry A. Lanman and Laura M. Wendling, eds.: Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Barry A. Lanman and Laura M. Wendling, eds. Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, AltaMira Press, 2006. Pp. 508. Paper, $36.95; ISBN 0-7591-0853-6.
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Steven M. Beaudoin. Poverty in World History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Steven M. Beaudoin. Poverty in World History. Themes in World History Series. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 136. Paper, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-415-25459-5.
The Themes in World History Series has acquired a new and important...
Eric F. Johnson, Andrew J. Donnelly, and Gabriel K. Wolfenstein. The Bedford Glossary for European History.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Eric F. Johnson, Andrew J. Donnelly, and Gabriel K. Wolfenstein. The Bedford Glossary for European History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. Pp. 144. Paper, $10.00; ISBN 0-312-45717-0.
In this digital age in which a new online reference...
David F. Crew. Hitler and the Nazis: A History in Documents.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... David F. Crew. Hitler and the Nazis: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 176. Hardcover, $36.95; ISBN 0-19-515285-9.
Crew brings his expertise in modern German history to bear on this didactic and...
Kenneth Bridges, ed.: Freedom in America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Kenneth Bridges, ed. Freedom in America. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. Pp. 464. Paper, $46.67; ISBN 13:9780136147343.
Freedom in America is a collection of 95 documents from U.S. history that define and discuss the...
Peter Charles Hoffer. The Brave New World: A History of Early America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Peter Charles Hoffer. The Brave New World: A History of Early America. 2nd edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. 554. Paper, $35.00; ISBN 0-8018-8483-7.
Instructors of courses in colonial America should consider...
Susan Dunn, ed.: Something That Will Surprise the World: The Essential Writings of the Founding Fathers.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Susan Dunn, ed. Something That Will Surprise the World: The Essential Writings of the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Books, 2006. Pp. 450. Cloth, $32.00; ISBN 0-465-01779-7.
Every teacher who makes a commitment to using primary sources...
Charles W. Calhoun, ed.: The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Charles W. Calhoun, ed. The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America. 2nd edition. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007. Pp. 402. Paper, $26.95; ISBN 0-7425-5038-9.
In this second edition of collected...
Gary Donaldson, ed.: Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945.(Book review)
March 22, 2008... Gary Donaldson, ed. Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. Pp. 306. Paper, $29.95; ISBN 978-0-7656-1538-1.
It seems as if there are dozens of documentary histories of post-World War...