Recently added articles from Teaching History: A Journal of Methods:
The New York Times Assignment.
Mar 22, 2009; ... Sometimes teachers develop favorite assignments that they use regularly in any number of their courses. (1) I have used and still use "The New York Times Assignment" in every history class I have taught since graduate school, whether at the college or high school level. This is probably ...
An American founder's dream: using Benjamin Rush's subconscious as an introduction to the study of history.
Mar 22, 2009; ... For a number of years my students in both the first half of the American history survey and in an upper-division course on the Early Republic have started their semesters by analyzing the subconscious of Benjamin Rush, a Philadelphia physician and a prominent member of the American ...
From content to process: a world civilizations teaching experiment.
Mar 22, 2009; ... As a historian-teacher, I relied on my own experiences as a student to shape and structure my own teaching. The instructional method preferred by my mentors, colleagues, and even students has always been lecture, with minimal student participation, and I adopted that approach for myself ....
Global muckraking: the international impact of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.(TEACHING WITH ONLINE PRIMARY SOURCES: DOCUMENTS FROM THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES)(Essay)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Background Essay as Introduction On October 9, 1907, Robert Bacon, Acting Secretary of State, wrote to the United States ambassador in London, Whitelaw Reid, that satirical postcards regarding the U.S. meat industry were circulating in South Africa. Originally published in ...
John K. Wilson. Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... John K. Wilson. Patriotic Correctness: Academic Freedom and Its Enemies. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2008. Pp. 263. Paper, $22.95; ISBN 978-1-59451-194-3. The Chicago writer and liberal activist John K. Wilson observes near the end of Patriotic Correctness that violations ...
Robert L. Badger, ed.: Ideas That Work in College Teaching.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Robert L. Badger, ed. Ideas That Work in College Teaching. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Pp. 165. Paper, $17.95; ISBN 978-0-7914-7220. This book of articles by professors from a wide range of disciplines at SUNY Potsdam is a pleasure and a great source of ...
Justin Reich and Thomas Daccord. Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers, by Teachers.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Justin Reich and Thomas Daccord. Best Ideas for Teaching with Technology: A Practical Guide for Teachers, by Teachers. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2008. Pp. 312. Paper, $34.95; ISBN 978-0-656-2132-0. Part roundup of websites, part manual for the use of computer applications ...
Ian Tattersall. The World From Beginnings to 4000 BCE.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Ian Tattersall. The World From Beginnings to 4000 BCE. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. 143. Paper, $19.95; ISBN 978-0-19-533315-2. Human evolution is defined as both the biological and cultural development of humans. Ever since the existence of scientific research, ...
Paul J. Dosal. Cuba Libre: A Brief History of Cuba.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Paul J. Dosal. Cuba Libre: A Brief History of Cuba. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2006. Pp. 152. Paper, $14.95; ISBN 978-0-882-95246-8. At a time when many scholars are producing works of big history, Paul J. Dosal and the editors of the Global History series at Harlan Davidson ...
Rafe Blaufarb. Napoleon: Symbol for an Age. A Brief History with Documents.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Rafe Blaufarb. Napoleon: Symbol for an Age. A Brief History with Documents. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Boston: St. Martins, 2008. Pp. 256. Paper, $14.95; ISBN 0-312-43110-4; ISBN 13: 978-0-312-43110-5. Like other titles in the Bedford Series in History and ...
Jeffrey Brooks and Georgiy Chernyavskiy. Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State: A Brief History with Documents.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Jeffrey Brooks and Georgiy Chernyavskiy. Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State:A Brief History with Documents. The Bedford Series in History and Culture. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2007. Pp. 192. Paper, $14.95; ISBN 0-312-41266-5; ISBN 13: 978-0-312-41266-1. With this ...
Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle. A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Howard Zinn, Mike Konopacki, and Paul Buhle. A People's History of American Empire: A Graphic Adaptation. New York: Henry Holt and Company (Metropolitan Books), 2007. Pp. 273. Paper, $17.00; ISBN 13: 978-0-8050087444. Howard Zinn's magnum opus, A People's History of the United ...
Walter LeFeber, Richard Polenberg, and Nancy Woloch. The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Walter LeFeber, Richard Polenberg, and Nancy Woloch. The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s. 6th ed. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008. Pp. 624. Paper, $42.95; ISBN 978-0-7656-2064-4. The American Century: A History of the United States Since the 1890s ...
Barbara Dianne Savage. Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Barbara Dianne Savage. Your Spirits Walk Beside Us: The Politics of Black Religion. Cambridge, MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008. Pp. 368. Cloth, $27.95; ISBN 978-0-674-03177-7. Today it is common to hear people speak of the "African American community" and ...
Ronald D. Eller. Uneven Group: Appalachia Since 1945.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Ronald D. Eller. Uneven Group: Appalachia Since 1945. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2008. Pp. 376. Cloth, $29.95; ISBN 978-0-8131-2523-7. The poet William Blake once wrote that "Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling on the ...
J. M. Dempsey, ed.: Sports-Talk Radio in America: Its Context and Culture.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... J. M. Dempsey, ed. Sports-Talk Radio in America: Its Context and Culture. Binghamton, NY: The Haworth Press, 2006. Pp. 222. Paper, $17.95; ISBN-10: 0-7890-2590-6. The obsession with sport in America is responsible for the growth of sports-talk radio, an often crude and ugly ...
Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson, eds.: America on the World Stage: A Global Approach to U.S. History.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Gary W. Reichard and Ted Dickson, eds. America on the World Stage: A Global Approach to U.S. History. Urbana, IL: The University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. 352. Paper $25.00; ISBN 978-0-252-07552-0. After reading America on the World Stage: A Global Approach to U.S. History, ...
Peter F. Nardulli, ed.: Domestic Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy.(Book review)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Peter F. Nardulli, ed. Domestic Perspectives on Contemporary Democracy. Champaign, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2008. Pp. 192. Paper, $23.00; ISBN 978-0-252-07521-6. This collection of original essays concerning democracy and the challenges it faces throughout the world is ...
Teaching Night and Fog: putting a documentary film in history.(Essay)
Sep 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 Fog (1956), Alain Resnais's documentary ...
Teaching the history of Chinese Christianity: some pedagogical perspectives.(Essay)
Sep 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 middle of the nineteenth century. Despite ...