Teaching history through the visual arts is one way of bringing the past into the present. In Cuba, the visual arts and architecture have reflected the country's "flowering of identity" through time, as a multi-ethnic population has grown to recognize its own distinct history, values and attributes, and Cuban artists have portrayed the…

The understanding and use of historical concepts specified in national history standards pose many challenges to students. These challenges include both the acquisition of content knowledge and the use of that knowledge in ways that require higher order thinking. All students, including adolescents with learning disabilities (LD), are expected to…

During Australia Day 2006, the Australian Prime Minister implicitly expressed that good Australian citizenship is interrelated with the proper knowledge of history. He also discussed how important dates in history often go unaddressed in most classrooms. Howard's comments serve as a useful introduction to a general discussion of the process of…

Although adolescent students often do not have knowledge of specific laws, they usually have a keen sense of justice and fairness. In this article, the author discusses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) as a powerful tool to channel students' sense of fairness into visible actions. Adopted in December 1948 by the General Assembly of…

Addressing the topic of rescue efforts poses particular challenges for teachers planning Holocaust curricula. While the issue leads many students to develop an engaged empathy with rescuers, teachers must avoid overemphasizing what was a limited occurrence within the overall Holocaust. This article presents a plan for using music to teach about…

Literature provides abundant examples of how to apply the wisdom of the past to today's problems. But literary examples are not enough. If children are to take an active part in questioning the past, they need to understand how to read history the way historians and even amateur historians do. In this article, the author provides examples of how…

Contemporary secondary education is marked by the standardization of both content and testing. The effect of this characterization on history, the humanities, and social studies results in a break from the spirit of these disciplines. Regarding history, the specific implications include objectification of causation and "the truth" about the past,…

Background/Context: Rabbi Raymond Zwerin and Audrey Friedman Marcus published the Gestapo Holocaust simulation game in 1976. Since that time it has been a source of debate among Jewish intellectuals and other scholars concerned with the pedagogy of the Holocaust. Even the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has weighed in on the issue, taking…

This article looks at the concept of Black History Month and its implications for teaching and learning in art and design education. It argues that the concept of Black History Month should be discarded because it tends to promote a separatist notion of culture and that it deflects from an understanding of culture as a plural and intermeshing…

A & C Black's "Flashbacks" series invites its readers to "Read a "Flashback"..take a journey backwards in time". There are several ways in which children's fiction has encouraged its readers to engage with and care about history: through the presence of ghosts, through frame stories, time travel, or simply setting the narrative in the past.…

This article discusses the importance of integrating educational material on the history of science into history courses. (PD)

This textbook is a history primer on the city of Rome. Rome was a great link in the history of the world--for all the nations of old times were conquered by Rome, and so came under Rome's power, while all the European nations were formed out of the overthrow of Rome. After an introduction, the following chapters are presented: (1) How Rome became…

This history textbook covers century exploration in America through Reconstruction, finishing with discussion of the growth of public institutions such as schools and libraries, and developments in arts, letters, science, and charities. This textbook is organized into the following parts: (1) Occupation: 1492-1638; (2) English Dominion: 1638-1763;…

This textbook is the first volume of Theodore Roosevelt's six-volume account of the exploration and settlement of the United States from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. This volume covers: the spread of the English-speaking peoples; the French of the Ohio Valley, 1763-1775; the Appalachian Confederacies, 1765-1775; the Algonquins of the Northwest,…

This textbook is the second volume of Theodore Roosevelt's six-volume account of the exploration and settlement of the United States from the Alleghanies to the Pacific. This volume covers 1774 to 1781. Appendices provide information on source documents. [For Volume I, see ED623795.]