Discusses the use of oral history to enliven, enhance, and supplement the standard social studies curriculum. Presents rationales for using oral histories, methods for classroom use, and suggestions for locating interviewees. Includes an annotated list of oral histories that address social issues. (GEA)

Presents a high school unit about the U.S. Industrial Revolution featuring the Boott Cotton Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts. Includes student objectives, step-by-step instructional procedures, and discussion questions. Provides two maps, five illustrations, one photograph, and three student readings. (ACM)

Relates the similar stories of Anne Hutchinson and Ann Hibbens, two religious dissenters in U.S. colonial history. Describes the background, role of sex discrimination, and the religious-judicial proceedings that caused both women to be convicted and jailed. Includes primary source readings from both trials. (CFR)

Presents a discussion of the documentation of and access to interviews for historical research purposes. Examines problems of documentation, transcription, permission, and storage. Presents questions of property, professional ethics, and witnesses. Argues for interview guidelines, training of researchers for interviewing, and taping of interviews.…

Describes a student project for an introductory course in U.S. history in which students gather oral or written recollections of the Depression era of the 1930s. Includes a sample questionnaire and other suggested projects. Discusses discovery of the relevance of textbook material to students' families. (DK)

Sketches the history of U.S. child labor legislation through the 1920s and 1930s. Presents two historical documents for classroom use: a typescript of Georgia's child labor law from the early 1920s and a visit report by the Children's Bureau to a Georgia school superintendent. Suggests assignments, questions, analysis, and research. (DK)

Presents a secondary school lesson plan on the selection of delegates to the first United Nations Assembly meeting. Discusses the esteem of Eleanor Roosevelt at that time and how President Truman requested that she be one of five U.S. representatives. Includes two primary source letters and instructional procedures. (CFR)

This third and last installment of articles examining ways to overcome various barriers to program implementation focuses on choosing appropriate curriculum materials, developing teacher and student resource materials, and choosing outdoor learning sites that offer maximum benefit to student learning. (LP)

Presents a lesson plan based on primary sources related to General William Tecumseh Sherman and the Civil War. Provides recommended questions for student discussion and writing assignments. Includes excerpts from primary documents and a list of document sources. (CFR)

Describes a project using city and town archives to explore important issues in U.S. history for Advanced Placement American history courses. Relates how town death, birth, or marriage records can be used by students as the stimuli for research projects on larger trends in demographic, social, or political history. (DSK)

Delivers background information on the political origins and confrontations surrounding the "Tuskegee Experiment." States that the success of the Tuskegee pilots, in their role as strategic escort for the Fifteenth Air Force, paved the way for the overall desegregation of U.S. armed forces. Provides teaching ideas along with two…

Compares three textbook accounts of Anne Hutchinson's life to show the importance of teaching students historical thinking. Presents a lesson that will enable students to analyze these historical accounts of Hutchinson and also to examine the interpretive nature of history. Provides two appendices. (CMK)

Provides 11 primary sources that enable students to contemplate how Thomas Jefferson and his slaves produced a culture and community at Monticello (Virginia) and his other plantations. Focuses on Jefferson's relationship with his slaves, particularly addressing Sally Hemming's relationship with Jefferson, in order to study the complicated history…

Presents a lesson plan that utilizes a document presented by students to the President of the University of Alberta in 1930. The document lists the prices (with increases) for food and other commodities and concludes with a succinct analysis of why students are moving off campus. (MJP)

Provides information on the health issues during the construction of the Panama Canal, focusing on issues such as the identification of mosquitoes as carriers of yellow fever and malaria and the role of Colonel William Crawford Gorgas in the battle against mosquito-born disease. Includes teaching activities. (CMK)