Given the high number of requests for test accommodations and the myriad of test accommodations available, test agencies give considerable attention to the process involved in the provision of test accommodations for high stakes tests. The decision to provide an accommodation to an individual with learning disabilities is based largely on the…

Oral history, a branch of historical research, is defined as a method of gathering and preserving historical information in the spoken form and preserving these spoken words with modern technology. This booklet chronicles the development of oral history and describes the role of the Onondaga County (New York) Public Library's Betts Branch as…

The use of primary materials, interpretations, pictorial materials, and statistical information are recommended to break the hold of the mythical image of the past and replace it with a historical past. (Author/DE)

This collection includes over 6,300 reels of microfilm of unique manuscript and archival holdings from both national and foreign repositories. Most of the material is historical, largely for Mexico from the colonial period to the early twentieth century. Three repositories account for the major portion of the holdings: the National Archives of the…

This inventory describes the records of the 1977 South Carolina International Women's Year Conference which, as part of the archives and special collections of Winthrop College's Dacus Library, are available for research. Included in the collection are minutes, correspondence, financial records, resolutions, newspaper clippings, publications,…

In 1946, the Committee on Negro Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies began the project of microfilming the Negro newspapers published in the United States in the last century. The Library of Congress, through its Photoduplication Service, performed the microfilming service and in 1953 issued a guide entitled Negro Newspapers on…

The value of old home movies, fiction films, and newsreels for the study of history is emphasized. (DE)

Argues against sanctioning the removal of public documents from public control since completeness is a fundamental principle of the archival profession, but suggests that the National Archives would be disinclined to seek the return of alienated records that were publicly accessible and professionally preserved. (Author/JD)

This collection of historical evidence was intended to help us to understand where and on what occasions and by what kinds of people books of history were written and read. It focuses on ancient Greek and Roman society and particularly on the position of the ancient historian. (Author/RK)

Critical assessment, library management problems, sources in popular and scholarly literature, and commercial offerings are discussed in this overview of the acquisition and management of oral history materials. (MBR)

The author supports the cause of accuracy and justification in reporting on the area of the history of mathematics and cites inaccuracies found in several publications on the subject. (MN)

Discusses the lack of consistent accuracy about historical figures in Chaucer's "Monk's Tale." The story of Nero fishing in the Tiber with golden nets is corroborated by many other ancient and medieval authors; however, the reference to Julius Caesar as being of lowly birth is peculiar only to Chaucer and a few medieval English authors.…

A portrait of a one-room schoolhouse in rural Iowa in 1895. (MM)

Uses primary source documents to help students analyze the Winnipeg labor revolt of 1919. Includes a newspaper advertisement and photo from the strike. (JDH)

Proposes several guidelines for using documents in U.S. history classes. Emphasizes that any document used must enhance the instruction of a specific unit or lesson objective. Offers a model for using primary source documents in the classroom. (RKM)