This paper presents preliminary findings from a study of the historical understanding of secondary students age 12-15 years in Northern Ireland. The study investigated the ideas students had about history, the sources of those ideas, how those ideas related to their sense of identity, and how school history compared to other, less formal…

History instruction must serve, above all else, to develop critically important citizenship knowledge, skills, and values. This book aims to blend recent scholarship on teaching U.S. history for citizenship with ideas on how to achieve this mission in grades K-5. Chapters in the book are: (1) "Teaching History for Citizenship in the Elementary…

This textbook is an American history course intended for upper grammar grades and junior high school. It covers the time from European colonization to the post-World War I era.

This textbook is intended to furnish interesting collateral reading for the classes in United States History. It is to be read and enjoyed as background material, rather than to be learned and recited. This volume covers: (1) The Era of Good Feeling, 1817-1825; (2) John Quincy Adams, 1767-1848; (3) Andrew Jackson, 1767-1845; (4) The Story of the…

This History of the United States has been prepared in order to meet the views of that large and increasing class of teachers who are aiming at definite results in this study. This manual is designed as a working book, and hence discards both the high-flown narrative style and the meaningless details of the majority of school histories. The text…

Reporting briefly on the state of classroom films as determined by a project reviewing educational and feature films dealing with Latin America, this report offers suggestions for improving the accessibility and quality of audio-visual materials. (SM)

Discussed educational objectives in history instruction and how students can become more aware of their own objectives in education. (RK)

A multidisciplinary approach to history provided by the use of poetry, and specifically epic poetry, portrays the story of man and offers a viable affective learning experience. (Author/KM)

Author attempted to develop alternatives to the survey courses in history instruction for students who may benefit from such departures, for those who may need them, and for those who, quite simply, are disenchanted with the traditional approaches to history. (Author/RK)

Whether or not a person consciously studies the past, he has in his mind a conception of past events. (GB)

The National Capital Parks Service provides reenactments of the battle Antietam at its actual location in Sharpsburg, Maryland as a part of its program of living history

New developments in the work practices of school Lenin halls and museums are observed. Emphasis is increasingly on the integration of these centers for ideological and political indoctrination and the educational process. (KM)

This article describes the Pacifica Tape Program which is available for classroom use: a six-part series on pioneer women based on primary sources consisting of diaries, letters, and other recorded historical events focusing on social history. (SM)

By obliging students to be historians themselves, teachers may demonstrate that the understanding of the past goes beyond mere dates and opinion offerings. (Author/PG)

Article outlines the experiments, research and innovations stemming from the search for ways of involving pupils at first hand in the stuff of history. (Author/CB)