Teaching History: A Journal of Methods articles from September 2002

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from September 2002

A "great roads" approach to teaching modern world history and Latin American regional survey courses: a Veracruz to Mexico City case study.
September 22, 2002... In January of 2000, the authors of this article made a ten-day field trip along Mexico's Veracruz to Mexico City corridor, with notebooks, detailed maps, and digital camera in hand. This was all in support of their recent experience in teaching...

Acting out Nazi Germany: a role-play simulation for the history classroom.
September 22, 2002... The scene I confronted when I arrived in the classroom on that third day of the simulation unnerved me. Festooned all over the walls, the blackboard, the backs of chairs, and the door through which I had entered were photocopied political...

Local studies and larger issues: the case of Sara Bagby.
September 22, 2002... Historians, especially American historians, increasingly bemoan the discipline's overspecialization and lack of relevance to the wider discipline, which they contend has caused a decline in synthetic history and a rise of specialized history....

Teaching the holocaust as a lesson in remembering and saying "no" to hate: a testimonial.
September 22, 2002... "If I was not here to write it, there would be no trace of this unknown person's presence." --Dora Bruder After age twelve, I could never eat pizza from Pizza Hut again. Let me explain. My mother regularly volunteered to accompany...

Nancy Mitford. Madame de Pompadour.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... New York: New York Review Books, 2001. Pp. xix, 292. Paper, $12.95; ISBN 0-940322-65-X. Madame de Pompadour by Nancy Mitford is as much a cultural icon as a work of history. Mitford, a British aristocrat born in 1904, was known for writing...

Margaret C. Jacob. The Enlightenment: a Brief History with Documents.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2001. Pp. xiii, 237. Cloth, $45.00; ISBN 0-312-23701-4. Paper, $10.00; ISBN 0-312-17997-9. Roy Porter. The Enlightenment. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Second edition. Pp. x, 90. Paper, $12.95; ISBN...

Michael A. Morrison. Slavery and the American West: the Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 396. Cloth, $49.95; ISBN 0-8078-2319-8. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-8078-4796-8. Secession remains a vexing problem to understand and an even more troublesome issue to...

Hugh Tulloch. The Debate on the American Civil War Era.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 1999. Pp. 255. Paper, $29.95; ISBN 0-7190-4938-5. While one may not find much new in the way of interpretation in Hugh Tulloch's collection of historiographical essays, it is nonetheless...

Gerald L. Sittser. A Cautious Patriotism: the American Churches and the Second World War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Chapel Hill & London: University of North Carolina Press, 1997. Pp. x, 317. Cloth, $39.95; ISBN 0-8078-2333-3. Many histories mention briefly the role of churches in feeding the pacifistic isolationism of Americans as World War Il first...

Maggi M. Morehouse. Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Latham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000. Pp. xviii, 247. Cloth, $24.95; ISBN 0-8476-9193-4. Most historians who study World War II have focused on Tom Brokaw's "Greatest Generation." This was especially true with the popular...

Paul W. Winters, ed. The Civil Rights Movement.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2000. Pp. 287. Paper, $14.96; ISBN 0-7377-0216-8. Thomas Sieboid, ed. Martin Luther King, Jr. San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2000. Pp. 224. Paper, $14.96; ISBN 0-7377-0226-5. These two anthologies...