The French Revolution can be a difficult subject to teach. Students often struggle to relate to events that happened more than two hundred years ago in France. In this article, the author suggests three key causes for the failure of the revolution that social studies teachers can focus on when teaching this topic. He also provides several stories…

Using mobile games in education combines situated and active learning with fun in a potentially excellent manner. The effects of a mobile city game called Frequency 1550, which was developed by The Waag Society to help pupils in their first year of secondary education playfully acquire historical knowledge of medieval Amsterdam, were investigated…

The author provides a dramatic account of a historical incident--the last cruise of the Pontificial--Navy which was found as an indirect result of educational research. (JR)

The purpose of this essay is to identify and direct the reader to some of the new trends in interpreting the Russian Revolution. (Author/JR)

Traces the impact of Francis Tallents on the teaching of modern history during the seventeenth century and presents a theory of the antecedents of his textbook. (IRT)

This ungraded, annotated bibliography includes books of history and society, literature and culture and a special section devoted to the southern part of Italy. Filmstrips, slides and films are listed in the audiovisual materials bibliography. Also included is a list of sources of books and audio-visual materials that are included in a multi-media…

An overview of the significance of World War II for Soviet schooling is provided. (DE)

Interpretations of the rise of sociology in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe, concentrating on Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, are reviewed. (Author/DE)

This article details the celebrated friendship of Benjamin Franklin and Mme Brillon de Jouy during the years following the American Revolution. (Text is in French.) (DB)

The medieval European history of the Ph.D. degree and the Germanic legacy with which the degree is still supposedly encrusted are reviewed. (Author/LBH)

Discusses the historiography of the Cold War, identifying five points central to orthodox interpretation, another five made by revisionist historians, and four by postrevisionists on the topic. Reexamines these interpretations, probing into their implications and identifying major points of conflict. (AEM)

Argues that historical fiction for young people about Ireland presents concerns of the past as intimately connected with controversies of the present and often explores the possibility of friendship between characters from different traditions in Ireland. (SRT)

Explains the continuing popularity of the Reverend W. Awdry's "Railway Series" featuring Thomas the Tank Engine. Argues that though the settings are anachronistic, the ideology expressed through Thomas the Tank Engine is congruent with that of the New Right. (SRT)

Discusses general assumptions, hypotheses, and categories used to study the experiences of women during the Holocaust. Presents excerpts from interviews with three women who survived imprisonment in concentration camps. Argues against the use of cultural feminism as a perspective on the Holocaust and provides a list of questions for further…

Discusses the ritual Speech on the Address in terms of its function to preserve stability in the English government. Suggests it was not strictly a genre or subgenre. (MS)