Teaching History: A Journal of Methods articles from September 2007

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from September 2007

Teaching the black death with systems thinking.
September 22, 2007... Winston Churchill suggested that "history unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths," (1) but however that might be, too many students of history tend to view the unfolding as a disconnected series of events, or perhaps worse as a mere...

Women in Asia and Africa: an interdisciplinary history-based readings course.
September 22, 2007... My teaching is grounded in an international perspective and in student-centered active pedagogy. The goal is for students to assume responsibility for their own learning, and I use student peer modeling as a means to achieve that objective. I...

Building historical thinking skills in the U.S. survey.
September 22, 2007... As a history educator I am constantly reminded of the gulf between how I think about history and how my students think about it. Sophisticated historical thinking, Sam Wineburg has suggested, involves using the facts of history as knowledge...

Less is more: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, glass houses, and immigration.(TEACHING WITH ON-LINE PRIMARY SOURCES: DOCUMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES)(Biography)(Essay)
September 22, 2007... When the Armour and Lewis Institutes of Chicago merged in 1940 to form the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), the director of architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was asked to develop plans and design the buildings for the newly...

Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World.(Video recording review)
September 22, 2007... Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World. Produced by Lion Television in association with PBS and Devllier Donegan Enterprises. Written, produced, and directed by James Hawes. UK, 2003; color and black and white; 112 minutes. VHS, DVD...

Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott Merrimann. The History Highway: A 21st Century Guide to Internet Resources.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Dennis A. Trinkle and Scott Merrimann. The History Highway: A 21st Century Guide to Internet Resources. 4th edition. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2006. Pp. 696. Paper, $39.95; ISBN 0-7656-1631-9. The Internet represents an astounding historical...

Gabrielle M. Spiegel, ed. Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing After the Linguistic Turn.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Gabrielle M. Spiegel, ed. Practicing History: New Directions in Historical Writing After the Linguistic Turn. New York: Routledge, 2005. Pp. 288. Paper, $34.95; ISBN 0-415-34108-6. Practicing History consists of debates on theoretical...

Marshall W. Fishwick. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Marshall W. Fishwick. Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture. New York: The Haworth Press, 2007. Pp. 228. Paper, $24.95; ISBN 0-7890-2592-2. Part memoir, part scholarly treatise, part travelogue, the late Marshall Fishwick's last work is...

John P. Jackson, Jr. and Nadine M. Weidman. Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... John P. Jackson, Jr. and Nadine M. Weidman. Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction. Science and Society Series. New Brunswick, N J: Rutgers University Press, 2004, 2006. Pp. 403. Paper, $29.95; ISBN 0-8135-3736-3. In a...

Helen M. Jewell. Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe, 1200-1550.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Helen M. Jewell. Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe, 1200-1550. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Pp. 171. Paper, $29.95; ISBN 0-333-91257-8. This excellent volume is part of the European Culture and Society Series. Helen M....

Helen Rawlings. The Spanish Inquisition.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Helen Rawlings. The Spanish Inquisition. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2006. Pp. 192. Paper, $30.95; ISBN 0-631-20600-0. Helen Rawlings has written a first-rate introduction to the complex study of a subject that has entertained a...

Link Hullar and Scott Nelson. The United States: A Brief Narrative History.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Link Hullar and Scott Nelson. The United States: A Brief Narrative History. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, Inc., 2006. 2nd edition. Pp. xii, 234. Paper, $18.95; ISBN 0-88295-229-3. In the spring 2003 number of this journal, Larry Madaras...

Steven L. Piott. American Reformers 1870-1920: Progressives in Word and Deed.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Steven L. Piott. American Reformers 1870-1920: Progressives in Word and Deed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. Pp. 224. Paper, $26.95; ISBN 07425-2763-8. This book is a collection of twelve biographical essays dealing with major...

Michael D. Gordin. Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Michael D. Gordin. Five Days in August: How World War II Became a Nuclear War. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 2007. Pp. 226. Cloth, $24.95; ISBN-13: 978-0-691-12818-4. This short book presents a reconsideration of the dropping...

Alan Trachtenberg. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Alan Trachtenberg. The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age. 25th Anniversary Edition. New York: Hill and Wang, 1982, 2007. Pp. 296. Paper, $16.00; ISBN 0-8090-5828-6. Any era in American history can be viewed as...

Donald Warren and John J. Patrick, eds. Civic and Moral Learning in America.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Donald Warren and John J. Patrick, eds. Civic and Moral Learning in America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 228. Paper, $28.95; ISBN 1-4039-7396-2. Since the birth of the Republic, Americans have asked what sort of civic and moral...