Exploring Polish educational historiography during the first quarter of the twentieth century, this article focuses on the professional goals and commitments of historians as factors central to the emergence of its research traditions. The possibilities and limitations of Thomas Kuhn's position for the study of educational history are examined.…

Presents a brief biographical sketch of Pope Pius XII and samples literary treatment of Pius's actions with respect to Nazi atrocities against the Jewish people during World War II. Concludes that Pope Pius XII failed to show moral leadership. Materials reviewed include historical texts, studies of the Vatican, documents related to the war period,…

Examines John Stuart Mill's writings on women with respect to their reception in and their application to the American scene from 1850 to the 1870s. Concludes that the implications were accepted by a significant portion of American society in the 1970s, a full century after Mill's publication. Journal availability: see SO 507 179. (Author/DB)

Provides information concerning the Congress of Vienna (1814-1815) for use in the secondary social studies classroom. Describes Talleyrand, Metternich, Castlereagh, Alexander I, and Frederick William III as the leading figures at this historic meeting. Discusses the outcomes of the meeting and lists questions for discussion. (KO)

Discusses the problems encountered by college students as they tried to write research papers about the history and politics of eastern Europe using a commercially available guide to writing research papers. Sketches some of the inherent difficulties that students have to confront when they write about history. (RS)

Offers three possibilities for confronting problems in literary periodization in the German literature classroom, demonstrating that an awareness of the complexities underlying literary-historical schemes of classification helps students appreciate more fully and accurately the dynamic upheavals characteristic of many literary epochs. (Author/CB)

The history of European higher education, particularly in a period of crisis and change such as the Napoleonic era (1789-1815), illustrates how the differences between university systems in different countries give insight into cultural traditions and historical conditions in each country. Analysis looks at circumstances in Britain, France,…

Galileo fit in well with the neo-Protagorian, person-relative framework that was emerging around him in the late 16th and early 17th centuries in Western Europe. For Galileo, all knowledge depended crucially and essentially on first person experience, and at the same time this knowledge was objective, not subjective. Comments on the educational…

Appalled by a report stating that most Americans were unaware of the Nazi's decimation of European Jewry during World War II, a fifth-grade teacher began teaching a lesson about the Holocaust. Her students were astounded to learn that the Nazis had murdered 1.5 million children. Presenting the Holocaust to elementary-age children requires a…

In a seeming contradiction of earlier education policy and ideology, the Nazi regime opened three elite schools for girls beginning in 1938. These relatively short-lived and little known institutions symbolized a Nazi penchant for the schooling of females as a preparation for motherhood and a means of preserving racial bloodlines. Drawing from…

During the Fall term, 2001, the author taught a new course intended to develop a diversity of close reading skills among his students. An integral component of the course involved the exploration of memory and history. As the fate of the syllabus would have it, right after the September attacks he taught Sarah Farmer's "Martyred Village:…

This paper asserts that an Irish dimension within the English History curriculum since c.1970 reflects approaches towards diversity. An Irish dimension is explored within the context of Multicultural Britain, debates over ways in which the past has been constructed and changes in the history curriculum. It is argued that that there is a…

The Ukrainian Museum Archives (UMA), an amalgam of museums archive, and library, in Cleveland, Ohio, is a unique ethnic institution constituting a collection of both primary and secondary sources amassed over a period of more than 40 years, including documents, manuscripts, books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and a variety of artifacts on…

This document is a collection of supplemental classroom materials on Poland to be photocopied for use in secondary schools in conjunction with the Education for Democracy's Classroom-To-Classroom project. The materials offer an historical framework for considering current events, as well as some insight into the events, ideas, issues, and…

This document is a collection of supplemental classroom materials on Czechoslovakia to be photocopies for use in secondary schools in conjunction with the Education for Democracy Project. After decades of Soviet domination and communist dictatorship, Eastern European countries are demanding democracy, human rights, and an end to the Soviet Union's…