Describes the method used by the American Chemical Society to keyboard its primary journals directly into a publishing database, which is then used to produce printed journals and create an online full text file. The use of a generalized mark-up format to convert journals not keyboarded in such a manner is suggested. (four references) (CLB)

Arguing that students must understand historical methodology in order to fully comprehend and appreciate history, Woodman presents an exercise that provides for a concrete, hands-on writing and evaluation of an historical essay by students. Describes the project in which students use primary sources to write about the Freedmen's Bureau and…

Focuses on types of questions raised in the encoding of historical documents. Illustrates how Text Encoding Initiative-based encoding produces a text that is of major value to future historical researchers. Maintains that software development is a barrier to developing text encoding tables. (CFR)

Discusses the use of autobiography and personal memoirs as teaching tools in the history classroom. Presents information from Henry Watterson's autobiography that discusses the life of Jane Cazneau. Points out flaws in which incorrect information is presented as true. Includes a complete lesson plan for use with the example. (DK)

Describes the Readings Text task, a method for evaluating history students. Explains that the students learn history through primary sources and learn critical thinking skills as they weigh the importance of different documents. Discusses the students' selection of historical topics, selection of primary sources, and a model document edited by a…

Presents a lesson plan to teach U.S. history through photographs of two monuments, one public and one private, commemorating Civil War dead. Provides background on the subjects, an all-black volunteer unit and three sons lost from one family, as well as the sculptors. Includes discussion questions and follow-up activities. (DK)

Examines the influence of Karl Marx's writings on Adolf Hitler, and asks whether there was a causal nexus between Russian and Nazi atrocities. Uses primary sources as a method for historical comparison. Compares Hitler's writings on antisemitism with those of Marx. (NL)

Discusses the importance of voice in historical writing. Criticizes objective historiography as impossible and undesirable. Emphasizes the interest and depth of interpretation generated by the use of voice in historical writing. Suggests classroom exercises that enable students to identify and evaluate voice in primary sources and secondary works.…

Argues that teaching history through poetry to secondary-level students presents a broad humanistic perspective of each era studied. Demonstrates the method by including four poems to illustrate different perspectives on immigration to the United States. Claims that history becomes more memorable and understandable, and that poems in themselves…

Presents results of a study in which a "Great Issues" format was utilized in a U.S. history survey course. Describes the teaching methods and instructional resources used in the pilot study. Finds that both students and instructors enjoyed the experience, and student discussion and analytical skills improved. (CFR)

Most of the Modern Language Association members and other scholars surveyed in this study see an ongoing need for collections of primary records. Respondents note that photocopies and digital records cannot satisfy the needs of bibliographers, textual editors, and literary scholars. Interest in print and the materiality of texts is also growing.…

Reviews works of cultural historians of the French Revolution. Analyzes interpretations of what constituted "the people" in three late eighteenth-century sources: Diderot's "Encyclopedie," contemporary political pamphlets, and Louis-Sebastien Mercier's vignettes of Parisian street life. Contends representation of "the…

Describes the use of the Educational Telecommunications Network to provide inservice teachers with staff development opportunities in history instruction using distance learning concepts. Discusses the role of a site facilitator who uses field support materials provided by the Network. (CFR)

Presents a lesson plan about the Point Lookout (Maryland) prison camp, which housed the largest total number of Civil War prisoners. Provides background information, a description of life in the camp, and five sketches of the camp and its inmates. Includes teaching suggestions, student questions, and recommended sources. (CFR)

Presents a lesson plan based on the Andersonville (Georgia) Civil War prison camp. Provides background information about the history and life in the camp. Includes teaching suggestions, a copy of a letter to the Confederate States of America Surgeon General from a camp doctor, and suggestions for further study. (CFR)