Teaching History: A Journal of Methods articles from September 2008

Teaching History: A Journal of Methods archives from September 2008

Teaching Night and Fog: putting a documentary film in history.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Night and Fog is the deportation seen and recounted by Christ.... Alain Resnais offers the left cheek and it is we who receive the slaps smack in the face, each shot being a well-deserved blow.--Francois Truffaut (1) I have shown Night and...

Teaching the history of Chinese Christianity: some pedagogical perspectives.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Introduction Beginning in the sixteenth century, European Catholic orders, including Jesuits, Franciscans, and Dominicans, introduced Christianity and established mission outposts in China. Protestant missionary societies arrived in the...

Correcting the course: the assessment loop.(Essay)
September 22, 2008... Background In January 2002 President George W. Bush signed into law "An Act to close the achievement gap with accountability, flexibility, and choice, so that no child is left behind." (1) This "No Child Left Behind" (NCLB) law expanded...

No kitchen cabinet this: Frances Perkins becomes secretary of labor.(TEACHING WITH ONLINE PRIMARY SOURCES: DOCUMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES)
September 22, 2008... Franklin D. Roosevelt took the oath of office as the thirty-second President of the United States on Saturday, March 4, 1933. The same day he called the U.S. Senate into a special session to consider his ten nominees for his cabinet. In just 24...

James M. Lang. On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... James M. Lang. On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching. Boston: Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 316. Cloth, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-674-02805-7. The first semester and indeed the first year of teaching at...

Jules R. Benjamin. A Student's Guide to History.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Jules R. Benjamin. A Student's Guide to History. Tenth ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. Pp. 288. Paper, $23.13; ISBN-13: 978-0-312-44674-1. Jules Benjamin articulately provides a history student with a new best friend. A Student's...

Ambrosio Bembo. The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Ambrosio Bembo. The Travels and Journal of Ambrosio Bembo. Edited by Anthony Welch and translated by Clara Bargellini. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 470. Paper, $24.95; ISBN 978-0-520-24939-4. The Travels and Journal...

Helen M. Jewell. Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe, c. 500-1200.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Helen M. Jewell. Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe, c. 500-1200. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. 192. Paper, $29.95; ISBN 0-333-91259-4. Jewell has presented us with a fine example of her scholarship in Women in Dark Age...

Tristram Hunt. Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Tristram Hunt. Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2006. Pp. 608. Paper, $20.00; ISBN 0-8050-8259-X. Works profiling Britain's post-industrial past are abundant,...

Gregory Hadley. Field of Spears: The Last Mission of the Jordan Crew.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Gregory Hadley. Field of Spears: The Last Mission of the Jordan Crew. Sheffield, England: Paulownia Press, 2007. Pp. 158. Paper, GBP 14.95, US $24.95; ISBN-13 978-0-9555582-1-4. Hardcover, GBP 21.95. There has been an enormous output of...

Tibor Glant. Remember Hungary 1956: Essays on the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence in American Memory.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Tibor Glant. Remember Hungary 1956: Essays on the Hungarian Revolution and War of Independence in American Memory. New York: Eastern European Monographs, 2008. Pp. 246. Cloth, $50.00; ISBN 9780880336161. Howard Zinn taught me long ago that...

Laurent DuBois and John Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Laurent DuBois and John Garrigus. Slave Revolution in the Caribbean, 1789-1804: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2006. Pp. 240. Paper, $14.38; ISBN 0-312-41501-X. Laurent DuBois and John Garrigus have made...

Thomas J. Whalen. A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Thomas J. Whalen. A Higher Purpose: Profiles in Presidential Courage. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. Pp. xvi, 254. Cloth, $26.00; ISBN 13-978-1-566663-630-8. Inspired by John F. Kennedy's 1955 Profiles in Courage, Thomas J. Whalen's most...

Blaine T. Brown and Robert C. Cottrell. Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Blaine T. Brown and Robert C. Cottrell. Modern American Lives: Individuals and Issues in American History Since 1945. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2008. Pp. 384. Paper, $32.95; ISBN 978-0-7656-2223-5. Modern American Lives was conceived...