New developments in the work practices of school Lenin halls and museums are observed. Emphasis is increasingly on the integration of these centers for ideological and political indoctrination and the educational process. (KM)

This article describes the Pacifica Tape Program which is available for classroom use: a six-part series on pioneer women based on primary sources consisting of diaries, letters, and other recorded historical events focusing on social history. (SM)

By obliging students to be historians themselves, teachers may demonstrate that the understanding of the past goes beyond mere dates and opinion offerings. (Author/PG)

Article outlines the experiments, research and innovations stemming from the search for ways of involving pupils at first hand in the stuff of history. (Author/CB)

Historical interpretation is a primary responsibility of the historian in addition to discovery of the factual past. Using historiographical study as one aspect of historical study, a teacher provides a vehicle for understanding and gaining experience in the use of the reflective process. (JB)

Describes a multi-media, open-ended approach to high school social studies that is relevant to any historical period. (AN)

History is one of the most difficult subjects to teach because it rarely fascinates the student. (Editor)

During the post war years the League of Nations Union Movement in Britain worked through the schools and converted pro-league sentiment into specific government policies. The history classroom was the focal point of the L.N.U.'s educational effort so that new generations would grow up ready to support enlightened foreign policies and the work of…

Objectivity should be an aim of all historical study despite the difficulty in attaining it. By measuring events, documents, or personalities against the standards of the era in which they occurred, students move one step closer to objectivity. Study of time perspective is a social studies skill. (Author/VW)

The subject of history is becoming increasingly irrelevant to contemporary man. Drastic changes in teaching methods, in course design, and in administrators' attitudes chould change the course history, as a subject, seems doomed to follow. (JB)

Student understanding and motivation are increased if history is taught from the present to the past with an emphasis on current affairs and their effect on the student