Teaching History: A Journal of Methods articles from September 2003

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from September 2003

Wounded knee, 1890: historical evidence on trial in the classroom.
September 22, 2003... On December 29, 1890, the Seventh Cavalry of the United States Army killed approximately 300 Sioux Indians near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. The Army had come to disarm and detain the Sioux in order to suppress the unrest associated with...

Finding the sources: a historian and a librarian unite.
September 22, 2003... Introduction Team-teaching, a topic that generates a great deal of discussion among academics interested in pedagogy, usually involves professors from different disciplines teaching a single class from the perspective of two academic...

Explaining history in a nutshell.
September 22, 2003... Introduction This essay offers an approach that introduces undergraduate students to the nature of historical inquiry. Samuel Wineburg and Janice Fournier have shown that merely taking a number of history courses will not automatically...

Real work, not busy work: the place paper.
September 22, 2003... We know the complaints well: This reading is boring, the assignment doesn't make sense, and those random facts must be memorized. Students receive homework and must force themselves to complete it. They agonize for hours in front of the...

Regine Pernoud and Marie-Veronique Clin. Joan of Arc: Her Story.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Translated and revised by Jeremy duQuesnay Adams. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999. Pp. xxii, 304. Paper, $14.95; ISBN 0-312-22730-2. Jeremy Adams here presents a revision and translation of one of Regine Pernoud's magisterial works...

John McGurk. The Tudor Monarchies 1485-1603.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. iv, 124. Paper, $11.85; ISBN 0-521-59665-3. John McGurk takes the monarchy, "the most important institution in political and constitutional change" in western Europe in the 1400s and 1500s,...

Allan Todd. Revolutions, 1789-1917.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. iv, 140. Paper, $11.95; ISBN 0-521-58600-3. This interesting little book summarizes and analyzes four great upheavals: the great French Revolution, the Revolutions of 1848, the French Commune...

Annika Mombauer. The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... London & New York: Longman, 2002. Pp. ix, 256. Paper, $16.00; ISBN 0-582-41872-0. Debate on the origins of the First World War, "the great seminal catastrophe" of the twentieth century according to George Kennan, has continued for almost a...

Robert Service. The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. Third Edition. Pp. x, 111. Paper $11.95; ISBN 0-312-22361-7. James D. White. Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution. New York: Palgrave, 2001. Pp. x, 262. Cloth, $69.95; ISBN 0-333-72156-X. Paper,...

Charles W. Calhoun, ed. The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2002. Pp. xxii, 323. Cloth, $60.00; ISBN 0-8420-5030-2. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-8420-5031-0. Scholarly Resources has recently published a number of undergraduate reading supplements targeted to topical and period...

Gunther Barth, ed. The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Selections from the Journals Arranged by Topic.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Boston & New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1998. Pp. xxi, 230. Cloth, $35.00; ISBN 0-312-12801-0. The journey of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean is one of American history's great survival stories....

Graham Russell Hodges, ed. Black Itinerants of the Gospel: the Narratives of John Jea and George White.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Palgrave, 2002. Pp. viii, 200. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-312-29445-X. The history of African-American evangelical religion is rich in pathos and heroism, and the lives of the two itinerants in this edited account, John Jea (b. 1773)...

Glenn M. Linden, ed. Voices from the Gathering Storm: the Coming of the American Civil War.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2001. Pp. xxxii, 236. Cloth, $60.00; ISBN 0-8420-2998-2. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-8420-2999-0. Voices from the Gathering Storm brings to life in variegated vignettes the swirling ideological and material...

Clarence E. Walker. We Can't Go Home Again: an Argument about Afrocentrism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp. 172. Cloth, $25.00; ISBN 0-19-509571-5. The factual flaws in much of the writing about Afrocentrism have been exposed in the past. Clarence Walker does so again in We Can't Go Home Again, and does...

Don Nardo, ed. The Great Depression.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... San Diego: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 2000. Pp. 223. Cloth, $24.96; ISBN 0-7377-0231-1. Paper, $15.96; ISBN 0-7377-0230-3. The Great Depression, part of the Turning Points of World History series published by Greenhaven Press, suffers from...

T.H. Watkins. The Hungry Years: a Narrative History of the Great Depression in America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1999. Pp. xvi, 587. Paper, $16.00; ISBN 0-8050-6506-7. The literature on the Great Depression is among the richest in American historiography, and rightly so. The 1930s was a decade that reshaped America and the...

Alice Yang Murray, ed. What did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?(Book Review)
September 22, 2003... Boston and New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2000. Pp. xii, 163. Cloth, $35.00; ISBN 0-312-22816-3. Paper, $14.20; ISBN 0-312-20829-4. In the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested...