This publication is intended for teachers bringing a class to visit the National Archives in Washington, D.C., for a workshop on primary documents. The National Archives serves as the repository for all federal records of enduring value. Primary sources are vital teaching tools because they actively engage the student's imagination so that he or…

This lesson from the "Teaching with Historic Places" series is based closely on the National Register of Historic Places nomination file on Attu Battlefield and U.S. Army and Navy Airfields on Attu, a National Historic landmark. Materials for students include: (1) a reading outlining the Japanese occupation and U.S. recapture of Attu;…

This package of teaching materials is intended to accompany an eight-part film series entitled "The Great War" (i.e., World War I), produced for public television. The package consists of a "teacher's guide,""video segment index,""student resource" materials, and approximately 40 large photographs. The video series is not a war story of battles,…

This booklet is designed to help teachers at all grade levels put the recommendations of "Building a History Curriculum" into practice. The volume offers suggestions and guidelines for curriculum development in world history. The guide is divided into two parts. Part 1, "Introduction," offers: (1) "Guidelines for Planning History Instruction in…

This kit, for grades 5 and up, helps students master the content of Colonial American history and develops students' historiographic and upper level thinking skills. The documents and activities included in this volume allow students to become "historical detectives," peeling back the layers, deciphering archaic lettering, reassembling…

This paper examines the means by which the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) preserves historically valuable documents while still making them available to those who initially created them. The paper compares the policies for handling requests for access by donors of material and procedures for accessioned records among the three…

This unit for U.S. history courses examines a number of questions raised by U.S.-Cuban relations beginning with the Spanish-American War of 1898 and ending with the missile crisis 64 years later. These questions are on such topics as the appropriate U.S. stance toward a nationalistic reform movement, a social revolution, and a military build up in…

The intent of this project was to create a core bibliography in support of preservation of scholarly jewelry research, and to encourage the interest and involvement of jewelry historians, appraisers, professionals, collectors, and connoisseurs in preservation initiatives. The bibliography identifies a core of jewelry history books that are…

This document is a compilation of materials for teaching about Australian involvement in the First World War, with a specific focus on the battle of Gallipoli (Turkey) in which several thousand Australian soldiers were killed. The materials include "The Gallipoli Diary of Archie Muir" and thirty photographs of Matthew Brown (Muir and…

This compilation of highly condensed abstracts of the minutes of governing board meetings chronicles the 37-year history of the Contra Costa Community College District (CCCCD) from 1949 to 1986. First, introductory material describes the context and the character of the opening years of the district, and lists the previous and current members of…

Completing the trilogy of local Amityville history written entirely by high school students using interviews, local newspapers, and documents, this journal contains 11 articles discussing the social, political, cultural, and educational scene of the community. The articles are: "De Facto Segregation in the Amityville School…

Intended to assist the genealogist/family historian in locating and using resources in one of the oldest libraries in northern New England (Dartmouth College Library), this selective annotated bibliography contains over 300 citations related to family history and genealogical research. Following an introductory section, materials are organized…

This Records and Archives Management Programme (RAMP) report provides information on the nature of oral tradition/history; the role of recorded oral history as documentation in the absence of written records, or as a supplement where written records exist; problems in recording and administering such materials; and basic considerations involved in…

A survey of 45 libraries and information centers within major Women's Studies Research Centers (WSRC) in the United States was conducted in 1986 to obtain information on their current role within the centers. Usable completed questionnaires received from 31 of the centers (68.8% rate of return) show that 64.5% of them have library and/or…

Approximately 500 titles about the Holocaust are presented from many fields: history, philosophy, religion, political science, psychiatry, fiction, and the arts. The bibliography encompasses all aspects of Holocaust scholarship, from the rise of Nazism to studies of survivors' offspring. Both primary and secondary sources, including oral histories…