Teaching History: A Journal of Methods articles from September 2001

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from September 2001

Theater across the curriculum: in the history classroom.
September 22, 2001... Introduction by Gayle V. Fischer Engaging students in the study of history is a challenge for all of us who teach history survey courses to non-majors. As a relatively recent Ph.D. and college professor, I am still honing my teaching style...

Putting the world into world history textbooks.
September 22, 2001... In 1978, my division chair asked me to create a new history course for the honors program being established at the Portsmouth Campus of Tidewater Community College in Virginia, specifically to create an alternative to the surveys of United...

Singing American history.(using American music in teaching)
September 22, 2001... "I hear America singing," Walt Whitman declared. A century and a half later we can still hear the music, whether we make it ourselves or, as is increasingly the case, we listen to others. If I judge my students correctly, many--especially the...

Passport to the Millennium.(social studies program teaches children about world culture and the global village)
September 22, 2001... In the grammar school I attended in the late 1950s and early 1960s, there was no such thing as Social Studies. Instead, what we had were separate classes in History and Geography. What I recall about these two subjects is that each had big...

"We Shall Gladly Teach": Preparing History Graduate Students for the Classroom. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Terry Lee Seip. "We Shall Gladly Teach": Preparing History Graduate Students for the Classroom. Washington, DC: American Historical Association, 1999. Pp. viii, 76. $5.00. ISBN 0-87229-114-6. Order from American Historical Association,...

The Rise of Christianity. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Don Nardo, ed. The Rise of Christianity. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1999. Pp. 224. Paper, $14.96; ISBN 1-56510-962-7. The Rise of Christianity is one of a series of anthologies, "Turning Points in World History." The series aims to...

The Dreyfus Affair: Honour and Politics in the Belle Epoch. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Martin P. Johnson. The Dreyfus Affair: Honour and Politics in the Belle Epoch. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. xi, 171. Cloth, $55.00; ISBN 0-312-22158-4. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-312-22159-2. Ever absorbing, even a century later, the...

The American Revolution. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Kirk D. Werner, ed. The American Revolution. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 2000. Pp. 224. Paper, $13.96; ISBN: 0-7377-0238-9. The American Revolution is one of those small, easily accessible supplements that all undergraduates (and some...

Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Timothy B. Tyson. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill & London: The University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. 402. Cloth, $29.95; ISBN 0-8078-2502-6. Paper, $16.95; ISBN 0-8078-4923-5. Timothy...

Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisoned, 1861-1991. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... David Mayers. Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisoned, 1861-1991. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Pp. viii, 184. Paper, $18.95; ISBN 0-312-22770-1. Between war and peace is a twilight land of aims, ideologies, dreams, and...

Women's Suffrage. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Brenda Stalcup, ed. Women's Suffrage. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2000. Pp. 256. Paper, $14.96; ISBN 0-7377-0325-3C. In selecting women's suffrage as a "turning point in world history," Greenhaven Press has, itself, made an important...

The 1960s. (Reviews).
September 22, 2001... Jennifer A. Hurley. The 1960s. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2000. Pp. 143. Cloth, $18.95; ISBN 0-7377-0211-7. Paper, $14.95; ISBN 0-7377-0210-9. The 1960s is a book designed primarily for the junior high school grades. The format of...

Satis Est.(Poem)
September 22, 2001... I write no poem men's heart to thrill, No song I sing to lift men's souls, To battle's front no soldiers lead, In halls of state I boast no skill, I just teach school. I Just teach school, but poet's thrill, ...