Teaching History: A Journal of Methods articles from September 2005

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from September 2005

To illuminate history: making history picture-perfect.
September 22, 2005... Teaching can be improved dramatically if we use images creatively and in a way that was not possible until recently. As a student, I was fortunate to be in the classrooms of several extraordinary teachers who inspired with their words, stories,...

Women's history through family history: a variation on a theme.
September 22, 2005... The undergraduate family history project has become a standard assignment in survey courses around the country over the last twenty years--sometimes as an optional project and sometimes as a required assignment. This activity, which documents...

Simulations, sources, and the history survey course: making the Internet matter.
September 22, 2005... How will the digital age change the nature of teaching and learning history? (1) This is one of the most important questions facing historians today. In 1998 the American Historical Association (AHA) received a grant from the National Endowment...

Shepherding the space program: JFK and liftoff.(John F. Kennedy)
September 22, 2005... On May 5, 1961, President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General Robert Kennedy, McGeorge Bundy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Arthur Schlesinger, Admiral Arleigh Burke, and Jackie Kennedy watched the television broadcast of Alan B. Shepard's...

Ian Glynn and Jenifer Glynn. The Life and Death of Smallpox.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Ian Glynn and Jenifer Glynn. The Life and Death of Smallpox. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 278. Cloth, $25.00; ISBN 0-521-84542-4. Edward Jenner, the discoverer of vaccination for smallpox, suggested in 1801 that the...

Jerzy Lukowski. The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Jerzy Lukowski. The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century. European Culture and Society Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. x, 243. Paper, $24.95; ISBN 0-333-65210-X. As the title suggests, this book offers readers an...

Vera Tolz. Inventing the Nation: Russia.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Vera Tolz. Inventing the Nation: Russia. London: Arnold Press. Pp. viii, 307. Paper, $24.95; ISBN 0-340-67705-8. During the Cold War, Americans often used, and confused, the term Soviet with Russian. Indeed, they were often synonymous in...

Robert Johnson. British Imperialism.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Robert Johnson. British Imperialism. Histories and Controversies Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003. Pp. XV, 284. Paper, $22.50; ISBN 0-333-94726-6. This handy book, as the series title indicates, "aims to explain some of the...

Christine F. Collette and Keith Laybourn, eds. Modern Britain Since 1979: A Reader.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Christine F. Collette and Keith Laybourn, eds. Modern Britain Since 1979: A Reader. London: I.B. Tauris & Co., Ltd., 2003. Pp. ix, 324. Paper, $27.50; ISBN 1-86064-597-6. Modern Britain since 1979 has many qualities that are desirable in a...

Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus' Great Discovery to the War on Terror.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen. A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus' Great Discovery to the War on Terror. New York: Sentinel, 2004. Pp. xiv, 928. Cloth, $29.95; ISBN 1-9523-001-7. Many college history professors...

Timothy J. Shannon. Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Timothy J. Shannon. Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America. New York: Pearson Longman, 2004. Pp. xiii; 251. Paper, $46.00; ISBN 0-321-07710-5. Some of the best ideas for the teaching of history come from those people who...

Julie Des Jardins. Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Julie Des Jardins. Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1880-1945. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. Pp. x, 380. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-8078-5475-1. Julie Des...

Jacqueline M. Moore. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Jacqueline M. Moore. Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2003. Pp. xix, 194. Cloth, $65.00; ISBN 0-8420-2994-X. Jacqueline Moore has succeeded admirably in...

Jonathan Rees and Jonathan Z.S. Pollack, eds. The Voice of the People: Primary Sources on the History of American Labor, Industrial Relations, and Working Class Culture.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Jonathan Rees and Jonathan Z.S. Pollack, eds. The Voice of the People: Primary Sources on the History of American Labor, Industrial Relations, and Working Class Culture. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2004. Pp. XIV, 246. Paper, $17.95;...

David Horowitz. The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... David Horowitz. The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Pp. ix, 339. Cloth, $29.95; ISBN 1-55849-432-4. Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11,...

Gary W. Reichard. Politics as Usual: The Age of Truman and Eisenhower.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... Gary W. Reichard. Politics as Usual: The Age of Truman and Eisenhower. Second ed. The American History Series. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2004. Pp. xvii, 213. Paper, $14.95; ISBN 0-88295-226-9. With the end of the Cold War and the...

T.G. Fraser and Donette Murray. America and the World since 1945.(Book Review)
September 22, 2005... T.G. Fraser and Donette Murray. America and the World since 1945. Studies in Contemporary History Series. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002. Pp. xxvi, 323. Paper, $12.95; ISBN 0-333-75432-8. Historians Fraser and Murray provide a concise...