Recently added articles from Teaching History: A Journal of Methods:

Historiography as pedagogy: thoughts about the messy past and why we shouldn't clean it up.

Mar 22, 2008; Wrobel, David M. ... Historiography is vital to our teaching about the past and to our understanding of the present, though you would not always know as much from the practices of K-16 history educators. (1) When I began my first full-time position as a college history teacher, in Wooster, Ohio, in the fall of ...

How I learned to stop worrying and love the survey.

Mar 22, 2008; Mercantini, Jonathan ... When I finished graduate studies with a fresh Ph.D. in hand, I set out to conquer the world of academia. (1) I counted myself among the fortunate ones. I had a full-time job, one that would enable me to give up my adjunct workload of five or more classes per semester plus all of the summer ...

Encouraging students to read the texts: the jigsaw method.

Mar 22, 2008; Resor, Cynthia ... "The information in the book will be on the exam" is probably the most common technique used to inspire college history students to read assigned texts. Unfortunately, this vague threat does not always encourage students to read and analyze the assignment carefully. College history ...

Incorporating films into a history classroom: a teaching note.

Mar 22, 2008; Briley, Ron ... While reading and writing remain at the core of the history classes that I teach, it is simply a fact of life that, as Robert Toplin and Robert Rosenstone have argued persuasively, students tend to receive most of their history through film and television. (1) Accordingly, it is imperative ...

Unshuttered lens: Dorothea Lange, documentary photography, and government work, 1935-1945.(TEACHING WITH ONLINE PRIMARY SOURCES: DOCUMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES)

Mar 22, 2008; Conrad, Carol B. ... In November 1940, on Arizona State Highway 87, south of Chandler, in Maricopa County, Dorothea Lange took a photograph of a mother and four small children. Caught in the powerful forces of the Great Depression, this migrant family's plight was used to drive government relief policy. Twenty ...

The Battle of Chernobyl.(Video recording review)

Mar 22, 2008; Blankenship, Steve ... The Battle of Chernobyl, First Run Icarus Films. Directed by Thomas Johnson. U.S., 2007; color; 94 minutes. VHS, DVD $440.00. Rental/VHS: $125. In the early morning hours of 26 April 1986, in the Ukrainian city of Pripyat, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded ....

Barry A. Lanman and Laura M. Wendling, eds.: Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Saylor, Thomas ... Barry A. Lanman and Laura M. Wendling, eds. Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians: An Anthology of Oral History Education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, AltaMira Press, 2006. Pp. 508. Paper, $36.95; ISBN 0-7591-0853-6. Preparing the Next Generation of Oral ...

Steven M. Beaudoin. Poverty in World History.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Percy, Thomas C. ... Steven M. Beaudoin. Poverty in World History. Themes in World History Series. London and New York: Routledge, 2007. Pp. 136. Paper, $26.95; ISBN 978-0-415-25459-5. The Themes in World History Series has acquired a new and important addition with Steven Beaudoin's treatment of ...

Eric F. Johnson, Andrew J. Donnelly, and Gabriel K. Wolfenstein. The Bedford Glossary for European History.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Bahr-Evola, Amanda ... Eric F. Johnson, Andrew J. Donnelly, and Gabriel K. Wolfenstein. The Bedford Glossary for European History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. Pp. 144. Paper, $10.00; ISBN 0-312-45717-0. In this digital age in which a new online reference source seems to crop up every few ...

David F. Crew. Hitler and the Nazis: A History in Documents.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Weston, Nathaniel P. ... David F. Crew. Hitler and the Nazis: A History in Documents. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 176. Hardcover, $36.95; ISBN 0-19-515285-9. Crew brings his expertise in modern German history to bear on this didactic and considerately arranged text aimed at secondary ...

Kenneth Bridges, ed.: Freedom in America.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Freund, Alexander ... Kenneth Bridges, ed. Freedom in America. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. Pp. 464. Paper, $46.67; ISBN 13:9780136147343. Freedom in America is a collection of 95 documents from U.S. history that define and discuss the concept and practice of freedom. From ...

Peter Charles Hoffer. The Brave New World: A History of Early America.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Kotzin, Daniel P. ... Peter Charles Hoffer. The Brave New World: A History of Early America. 2nd edition. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. 554. Paper, $35.00; ISBN 0-8018-8483-7. Instructors of courses in colonial America should consider this thorough textbook. By developing a ...

Susan Dunn, ed.: Something That Will Surprise the World: The Essential Writings of the Founding Fathers.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Riggs, Dawn Marsh ... Susan Dunn, ed. Something That Will Surprise the World: The Essential Writings of the Founding Fathers. New York: Basic Books, 2006. Pp. 450. Cloth, $32.00; ISBN 0-465-01779-7. Every teacher who makes a commitment to using primary sources in the classroom either faces a lack of ...

Charles W. Calhoun, ed.: The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Pethel, Mary Ellen ... Charles W. Calhoun, ed. The Gilded Age: Perspectives on the Origins of Modern America. 2nd edition. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2007. Pp. 402. Paper, $26.95; ISBN 0-7425-5038-9. In this second edition of collected essays on the Gilded Age, editor Charles ...

Gary Donaldson, ed.: Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945.(Book review)

Mar 22, 2008; Neumann, Caryn E. ... Gary Donaldson, ed. Modern America: A Documentary History of the Nation Since 1945. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007. Pp. 306. Paper, $29.95; ISBN 978-0-7656-1538-1. It seems as if there are dozens of documentary histories of post-World War II United States. Most cover the same ...