Teaching History: A Journal of Methods articles from September 2006

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from September 2006

Medieval Connections: Active Learning and The Teaching of The Middle Ages.
September 22, 2006... A teacher who can creatively set up a dialectic of learning activities in which students move back and forth between having rich new experiences and engaging in deep, meaningful dialogue, can maximize the likelihood that the learners will...

Teaching The Middle East: The Perspectives Method.
September 22, 2006... Why the Middle East Now? "The Perspectives Method" was developed and taught successfully as a semester-long history elective for upper-level students at Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School in Michigan, but it could easily be adapted as a unit...

"If teachers would only...." How students view their college experience.
September 22, 2006... For a period of some eighteen months I asked classes to complete this sentence in a short written statement: "My college life would be easier and more productive if teachers would only...." This teaching note is based on some 130 replies. The...

Julia Gelardi. Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, the Granddaughters of Queen Victoria.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Julia Gelardi. Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, the Granddaughters of Queen Victoria. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005. Pp. 480. Cloth, $29.95; ISBN 0-312-32423-5. Born to Rule is the story of the lives of five very different women...

Paul Addison. Churchill: The Unexpected Hero.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Paul Addison. Churchill: The Unexpected Hero. Lives and Legacies Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. vii; 308. Hardback, $25.00; ISBN 0-19927934-9. It now seems that as much has been written about Winston Churchill as any...

Julian E. Zelizer, ed. The American Congress: The Building of Democracy.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Julian E. Zelizer, ed. The American Congress: The Building of Democracy. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. Pp. 784. Cloth, $35.00; ISBN 0-618-17906-2. The book covers a great deal of material. It divides Congress into four eras. As the...

Richard Godbeer. Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Richard Godbeer. Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. Pp. xiv, 177. Paper, $13.00; ISBN 0-19-516130-0. Richard Godbeer, author of The Devil's Dominion." Magic and Religion in Early New...

Richard Buel, Jr. America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Richard Buel, Jr. America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 310. Paper $17.50; ISBN 1-4039-6238-3. It is ironic that the early...

Thompson, C. Bradley ed. Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Thompson, C. Bradley ed. Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 2004. Pp. 320. Paper, $25.95; ISBN 0-7656-0403-5. C. Bradley Thompson combines breadth and depth with the publication of this primary...

David W. Southern. The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... David W. Southern. The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2005. Pp. 239. Paper, $15.95; ISBN 088295-234-X. In The Progressive Era and Race." Reaction and Reform, David W. Southern makes...

Thomas Fleming. The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Thomas Fleming. The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I. New York: Basic Books, 2003. Pp. 543. Cloth, $17.50; ISBN 0-465-02469-6. Although the Great War of 1914-1918 has long been a popular topic for European historians, it has...

Beverly Southgate. What Is History For?(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Beverly Southgate. What Is History For? New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 228. Paper, $27.95; ISBN 0-415-35099-9. This is a good book--a thoughtful, well-written, and even "useful" meditation on the philosophy of history in our time. Beverly...

Shelly Kintisch and Wilma Cordero. Breaking Away from the Textbook: A Creative Approach to Teaching American History.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Shelly Kintisch and Wilma Cordero. Breaking Away from the Textbook: A Creative Approach to Teaching American History. 3rd ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Pp. 320. Paper, $58.95; ISBN 1-57886-293-0. This book is a compilation of...

Arnoldo De Leon and Richard Griswold del Castillo. North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Arnoldo De Leon and Richard Griswold del Castillo. North to Aztlan: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States. 2nd ed. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2006. Pp. 312. Paper, $26.95; ISBN 0-88295-243-9. In the century and one-half...

Joseph A. Conforti. Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Joseph A. Conforti. Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. 248. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 0-8018-8254-0. One of the many virtues of this compact, but multi-layered, survey...

Tom Chaffin. Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Tom Chaffin. Sea of Gray: The A round-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah. New York: Hill and Wang, 2006. Pp. 432. Paper, $25.00; ISBN 0-8090-9511-4. On October 8, 1864, the Sea King slipped down the Thames River and...