The Bicentennial challenges educators to deal with the myths, legends, and habits that have been carried forward from eight or more generations of schooling so that a more informed, sincere, and enlightened professionalism may emerge. (MM)

The author asserts that development of a critical pedagogy appropriate for education in this country is a top priority. She suggests ways educators can begin to reappropriate the American cultural heritage to create conditions for a meaningful pedagogy. (Author/CH)

Describes development of the Huntington Library, the largest and most complete repository in the United States of source material on British and American civilization from the Middle Ages to 1850, noting setting, service to researchers and the public, and collections. (EJS)

The field of American Studies explores the cultures and practices of individuals and communities in the United States, as well as their transnational exchanges and impacts. It is an interdisciplinary field that is based on making "connections." Environmental justice, as a social movement, also makes important connections. It integrates…

Themes, issues, teaching approaches, and bibliographic references to sources for a course in environmental history, offered with the hope of preparing students to formulate principles to guide our further conduct toward the environment, are described. (JH)

The report describes the Law in American Society Project which is designed to foster law education for elementary and senior high school students. Emphasis is upon developing unit and new course designs and training teachers in the study of law. Detailed accomplishments (paralleled with fourteen objectives for the purpose of this report) are given…

Points out the need for histories that take mass communication as their subject and include journalism as a part of that larger topic; describes concerns shared by mass communication history and the field of American studies. (GW)

At the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, scholars deplored the lack of attention paid to the history and culture of ethnic and minority groups. Scholars have recently expanded their understanding of "American" to include Canada, Central and South America. (MLW)

This lesson plan provides students with an opportunity to examine both the diversities and commonalities symbolized by the term "American." Includes discussion questions and activities to demonstrate the cultural diversity in the United States. (DH)

Using baseball as its focus, this article demonstrates the importance of sport in helping students understand certain central themes of United States history. Provides a brief history of baseball and reviews scholarly works on its influence in United States culture. (JDH)

Includes a description of an American studies course for grade eleven and a world history/English program for grade nine. (DD)

This lesson plan for elementary-age children studies some of the primary source documents and symbols of freedom which were and are important for the nation. The lesson plan uses the following documents: "The Mayflower Compact"; "The Declaration of Independence"; "The Constitution"; and the "Bill of Rights."…

The hydro-electric power development in northern Manitoba, Canada is a threat to the buried and unstudied record of prehistoric man. (FF)

Purpose: The study of patterns of residential mobility among individuals around the age of retirement has led to the recognition that for many reasons--climate and cost of living being the most frequently cited--settlement patterns of comparatively affluent retirees will often differ from those of the working-age population. Increasingly,…

Discussed are the American Indians who settled in the state of Connecticut long before the Europeans discovered North America. Also provided is a listing of resources dealing with Native Americans of the Northeast for use by secondary and college U.S. history or state history teachers. (RM)