Recently, a United Nations study of 30,000 10- to 14-year-olds in nine countries ranked U.S. students next-to-last in their comprehension of foreign culture. Senator Robert Stafford of Vermont pointed out that the impressive array of witnesses before the committee indicated the need to increase geography literacy among young people. Senator…

Tracing the history of events that led to the U.S. Constitutional Convention (1787) and to the eventual ratification of the U.S. Constitution, this book presents numerous reproductions of leaders' portraits, documents, and paintings from the U.S. Library of Congress and other collections. Chapter 1, "Was the Revolution a Blessing or a…

The principal aspects that characterize the illiteracy problem in 14 Latin American and Caribbean countries and the achievements of 22 currently established literacy programs were determined through a 1981 UNESCO study. The purpose of this study was to obtain data useful in the planning of future literacy programs. Section one identifies…

This listing of historically important manuscripts and documents was prepared for the use of cadets, faculty, and outside scholars. While the strength of the collection lies in its coverage of the cadet and professional army careers of academy graduates, it is also rich in materials from the Revolutionary War era and includes records of the…

The author reviews various sources of competencies used in forming a competency based educational process, dividing these sources into three groups: inductive (from observation), deductive (from general principles), and seductive (from presently existing programs). (MJB)

Examines to what extent primary source materials required by humanistic scholars are accessible to them through the library. (Author/PF)

Teachers should cite the source of a borrowed idea; professors should be as original in their presentation of material as they expect their students to be in their course papers. Instructors who allow the impression that discourse taken from others is their own are plagiarizing. (MLW)

Offers selected passages from autobiographical and fictional accounts of the Holocaust by inmates and survivors and by artists as evidence that "everything is possible." Argues that, although the death camps cannot be completely comprehended, they can be sensitively imagined. (DMM)

Advocates the use of primary sources to increase student interest and learning. Includes suggestions for using local resources in such a program and provides a sample lesson plan. Discusses the importance of student work with unedited materials as opposed to secondary sources. (GEA)

Discusses the use of primary sources in teaching about the Vietnam War. The approach encourages student questioning and discussion of issues surrounding the war. Urges educators to be certain that students know and understand the reasons for the war and not just repeat the rhetoric. (Author/GEA)

The Library of Congress has indexed and microfilmed its collection of presidential papers as the Presidential Papers Microfilm Series, which is now available to scholars and students. Each collection of presidential papers in the series is briefly described. (RM)

Examination of the jazz archive as a primary resource emphasizes research potential of jazz sound recordings as an example of use of audiovisual materials for scholarly research. Discussion covers field recordings, commercial recordings, noncommercial recordings, archival collections, musicological research, visual resources, audiovisual…

At the end of the American Revolution, British merchants flooded U.S. seaports with inexpensive and much-desired goods, threatening the healthy markets that U.S. merchants had enjoyed during the war. The broadside in which Massachusetts merchants made their anger and demands known is the basis for the teaching activities presented here. (RM)

Calls for a systematic preservation of historical materials on speech communication. Includes a short bibliography of theses and dissertations on prominent speech educators and on departmental histories. (PD)

This lesson plan for elementary-age children studies some of the primary source documents and symbols of freedom which were and are important for the nation. The lesson plan uses the following documents: "The Mayflower Compact"; "The Declaration of Independence"; "The Constitution"; and the "Bill of Rights."…