This paper presents the position of the Organization of History Teachers (OHT) regarding the development of national history standards by the National Standards Project. The OHT position suggests that the Project should recognize that standards aiming for excellence in precollege history teaching require changes in the education of teachers, the…

This book offers ideas about using primary sources to enhance students' understandings of history. It discusses the following resources, methods, and ideas: types of primary sources; tips on finding and preparing primary sources for student use; personal, local, and remote history activities; detailed descriptions of diverse projects; guidelines…

This paper explored whether a highly structured experience in writing historical narratives would help student teachers learn this form of writing and the character of historical knowledge. The paper begins by discussing the role of narrative in learning history. The study involved a historiography course that was designed for students to study…

A family history project, implemented in a survey course at the Louisiana State University, is described. Advantages of such a social history emphasis are dealt with along with student guidelines on how to collect information through interviewing family members, and how to prepare the report. (SM)

At the College of St. Thomas, the initiation of a sound/slide project requirement in the introductory history course solved several chronic problems. Student interest, traditionally low, picked up dramatically. In addition, the meager supply of adequate courseware was supplemented, for the project resulted in some excellent productions which have…

A multi-media approach to the teaching of black history is described. The techniques suggested are also applicable to use in teaching concepts related to other cultures. (SM)

The role of the history teacher in the Komsomol organization is essential in conducting mass political work, political education, the school radio, the school Knowledge'' Society, and the study of the history of the local Komsomol. (KM)

A simulation game designed for seventh grade students of New York history shows how the iroquois Confederacy was able to conquer much of present New York State. (Author/KM)

It is argued that top priority within the field of history should be reserved for the survey course. Structure in a history survey is analyzed from the aspects of critical thinking and the nature of history as a discipline. (KM)

A history course could be built around the hypothesis that capitalism, democracy, protestantism, individualism are the result of abnormal conditions caused when congested Europe discovered and began to exploit the Great Frontier; the assumption continues that when the abnormal conditions abate the world will return to a normal'' state. (JB)

An analysis of the present structure of courses and policies for teaching U. S. History, followed by a list of courses available at various institutions. (JB)

Specific teaching strategies are provided which employ the use of popular music to reveal issues of social change. (SM)

Televised portrayals of cowboy legends are really legends of violence, not of fact or history. (JB)

A history of French rule in Indochina is offered by way of explanation of the current involvement of the United States in that Asian country. (JB)