By using propaganda commercial radio broadcasts which occurred during the Second World War as the basis for classroom activities, teachers can help students capture the emotional drama of various topics of the war, as well as certain themes still applicable in contemporary society, and stimulate student curiosity about the past. (RM)

Accounts from the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, published by the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia can be integrated with materials from related scientific sources to help college students develop an understanding of the emerging geography of recently discovered diseases. Legionnaires' disease is used as an example. (RM)

Secondary students interpret a primary source document from the National Archives--the Tonkin Gulf Resolution--and are involved in activities which will help them understand the Tonkin Gulf incident in the context of the Vietnam War. Background information is provided. (RM)

A 1944 presidential election campaign flier used by Franklin Roosevelt when he ran for a fourth term as president is the basis for learning activities to be used in a secondary level U.S. history course. (RM)

For social studies teachers, the challenge is to teach about war by going beyond causes and results and the major battles and highlights historians claim as important. Excerpts from literature and primary source materials and discussion questions are presented to help secondary students study the personal side of World War I. (RM)

The objectives of this learning activity, which compares students' estimates for selected death rates with government census figures, are to orient college students to sociology's methods and content and to increase their comprehension of their first reading assignment on Durkheim's study of suicide. (Author/RM)

Mapwork, a film, a debate, a machine-gun demonstration, and a box of primary source materials can be used in a World War II unit for 12th graders to supplement conventional analyses of the Dieppe Raid. (RM)

Discusses the use of primary resources in the teaching of middle school social studies. Describes a lesson in which students were given a copy of the Declaration of Independence, written in everyday language, and were asked to discuss and evaluate it. Suggests another activity based on Thomas Jefferson's writings. (SG)

Discusses methods for increasing students' appreciation of and interest in history by incorporating the human element into the narrative. Suggests that this can be accomplished by utilizing diaries, journals, oral histories, and living people. Argues that the brief coverage of events presented in texts does little to give students a feeling of the…

Philography, or autograph collecting, is a good way to liven up social studies classes. For example, after watching the TV miniseries "Winds of War," students wrote to famous real life participants in the war asking them a variety of questions. The response rate was nearly 100 percent. (RM)

To learn about the history of psychology, college students presented past research papers in psychology as if they were the original author, and the audience was confined, in raising questions, to their understanding of the prevailing state of knowledge and social outlook at the time of the paper's original publication. (RM)

In this activity for high school American government classes, students examine and discuss six documents concerning the transfer of power to Lyndon Johnson after the Kennedy assassination. The objective of the lesson is to help students understand how power is gained and used. (AM)

Presents a transcript of a decoded telegram which describes events surrounding the death in 1924 of Robert Imbrie, United States Vice Consul to Tehran, Persia (presently Iran). Background information and suggestions for teaching are included. (KC)

Undergraduate history students can gain insight into the historical process from a short exercise using copies of documents that give conflicting interpretations of the same event. Explains how to lead class discussions based on two letters about lawlessness in Arizona in the 1880s. (Author/AV)

Secondary students participate in a library scavenger hunt to find answers to questions raised by the press release containing President John F. Kennedy's telegram to Nikita Kruschev congratulating the Soviets on the first successful manned space flight. Issues for classroom discussion are also presented. (RM)