Rembrandt's art lends itself as a fertile resource for teaching and learning social studies. His art not only captures the social studies themes relevant to the Dutch Golden Age, but it also offers a description of human relations transcending temporal and spatial frontiers. Rembrandt is an imaginative storyteller with a keen insight for minute…

This textbook is designed for a course in British history from the early Britons and the coming of the Romans, through the reign of Elizabeth I. This book contains more than 60 lessons and 120 pages of reading matter, exclusive of all exercises, illustrations, and spelling lists. Genealogical trees and a brief English history outline are included.

This textbook provides the foundation for a course in British history. It covers Roman times, the English arrival, kings before and after Alfred, the Norman line, the Plantagenet line, the House of Lancaster, the House of York, the House of Tudor, the House of Stewart, and the House of Hanover. This book contains more than 60 lessons and 120 pages…

This textbook is a course in British history following the union of the crowns, covering the reign of James I through the reign of Victoria and progress in the Nineteenth Century. This book contains more than 60 lessons and 120 pages of reading matter, exclusive of all Exercises, Illustrations, and Spelling Lists. Historical timelines and…

Surveys the spread of literate culture in Western Europe and especially England and the decline of the ancient art of memory, both greatly attributable to the advent of printing. Argues that memory and literacy not only have intriguing historical roots but are closely intertwined. (JOW)

Traces selected instances of bibliographic instruction from the mid-17th to the end of the 19th century and puts them into a political context from a Communist viewpoint. Libraries are shown to be part of the class struggle, and to exist by order of and as enablers of the state. (Author/EM)

Richard Wagner was probably the most influential musician of the 19th century. However, his image as an alleged intellectual-spiritual forerunner of national socialism through his music and prose works fosters aversion among critics. Whether Wagner's complicacy of art and ideology has had any lasting consequence on his reputation is discussed. (RM)

A 131-item bibliography with titles in French, German, English, and Russian, intended to aid in research on the educational history of France. (RA)

Describes how Dorothea Lieven influenced the direction of European diplomacy during the nineteenth century. Lieven, who is known as the leading unofficial diplomat of modern times, used her friendships with influential men to alter the foreign policies of England, Russia, Germany, and France. (AM)

The author is persuaded that the main purpose of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was to raise the confidence of moderate ruling groups in Western Europe. Today NATO is an expression of support between troubled allies with a number of common interests. (RM)

Photographs and descriptions are provided of 19 early European wind, string, and keyboard instruments. (SJL)

Pinpoints Cola Rienzi as an important figure in the history of professional writing. States that he combined a passion for classical rhetoric and literature with extensive training in legal documentation to create and sustain a messianic regime in 14th-century Italy by imitating ancient Roman memos and reports in his written edicts. (PA)

Offers brief summaries of contributions made by several of Christopher Columbus's contemporaries, including Nicholas Cusa, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Nicholas Copernicus, Johannes Gutenberg, Sir Thomas More, Desiderius Erasmus, and John Colet. Urges modern Catholic educators to learn from these risk takers and visionaries. (DMM)

Examines the conflict between individualism and communitarianism (and its implications for rhetorical theory) by examining the historical debate between liberals and conservatives during and after the French Revolution. Shows how Richard Whately's notions of "presumption" and "burden of proof" (further developed by Mill and…

The way in which the photographic images from the Holocaust explains about the working of the historical narratives and disturb the cultural memory is explored. The reading of these photographic images yields as a byproduct of knowledge, which is described as "forgetful memory".