The author describes the impetus for and content of the Lilly Program in American History at Indiana University, funded by the Lilly Endowment, which investigated the state of high school history instruction, provided teacher training on the basis of the diagnosed needs, and evaluated the results of the training. (JH)

Several theories are given that provide the history teacher with a vehicle to explain elements of Puritan society as revealed by belief in witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts. (Author/JR)

An alternative to the survey approach for teaching history is the team-taught humanities course, that has enjoyed considerable success at Illinois State University, in which history is integrated with art, music, and literature. (Author/ND)

Because of the nature of policy-making and its crucial difference from decision-making, more than empirical knowledge is required. Programs for education educational administrators ought to include the perspective provided by the humanities, particularly history. (Author)

Condensed from "Social Education, Volume 32 (October 1968), 554-56

This project was designed to examine the selection and use of films in the teaching of history, the nature of the film medium as an instrument for learning, and the manner in which the discipline and the medium can be combined effectively in the classroom. Teachers need to be made aware of audiovisual materials available to them and methods of…

An undergraduate oral history course is described. (DE)

Examples of how oral history can be used in the secondary classroom are provided.

Slide presentations on California history which use five slide projectors simultaneously are described. (DE)

Describes a writing skill improvement project in which graduate students at Berkely graded papers written by undergraduate students in a course on the origins of Chinese civilization. Critical examination of student papers, combined with opportunities to discuss and rewrite the papers, encouraged students to develop a thesis, eliminate irrelevant…

Memories of student protest in the 1960s prompt the author to reflect that English departments seemed to have been teaching more criticism than history and that, if they don't want the 1960s to recur, they had better reverse this proportion. (GT)

Reading past issues of one's school newspaper provides a source from which an era may be studied through student perspectives. The papers afford an examination of World War II, the "happy days"of the 1950s, and the turbulence of the 1960s, as well as an analysis of faculty censorship before that time. (KC)

Describes the process of preparing an innovative textbook on English history. The textbook stresses richness of England's history and society in addition to politics and foreign affairs. For journal availability, see so 506 696. (DB)

Undergraduate history students can gain insight into the historical process from a short exercise using copies of documents that give conflicting interpretations of the same event. Explains how to lead class discussions based on two letters about lawlessness in Arizona in the 1880s. (Author/AV)