Discusses history teaching strategies which utilize audiovisual documents in the National Archives in Washington, D.C. Strategies involve integrating the materials into a lecture course; producing an individual audiovisual program; and providing students an opportunity to interpret documents. (Author/DB)

Looks back on an unusual history through drama project. (Editor)

Presents an interview with a Holocaust survivor as a means of showing how the interviewing process can support and personalize well-written historical fiction for children. (TB)

States that in ninety percent of colleges across the United States, some or most classrooms are wired for technology integration. Posits that to facilitate student learning and prepare students for future technological advances, instructors must use effective teaching activities that include computers. Provides a sample computer assisted history…

Considers the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in the classroom and discusses the impact of five multimedia programs relating to themes within Scottish history on teaching and learning in Scottish elementary and secondary schools. Suggests criteria that must be met for the successful integration of ICT into the history…

Reports on a study that tested the efficacy of an information retrieval system output summary and visualization scheme for undergraduates taking a Vietnam War history course who were in Kuhlthau's Stage 3 of researching a history essay. No significant difference was found between the mean marks for students in the visualization scheme group or the…

Describes a unit in four steps that meets the challenge of teaching history in a meaningful way by incorporating role-playing with historical investigation. Hopes for each student to breathe life into a person from the past. Discusses the benefits of role-playing biographies. (SG)

This article reviews social studies instructional approaches for secondary students with mild disabilities, with an emphasis on methods that provide access to the general education curriculum. It highlights research findings on domain-specific instructional approaches for teaching social studies concepts such as historical understanding and…

Analyzes content and process in Western historiography. Provides a diagram that explains variations in historical approaches: inquiry moves from small to large scale; and philosophies range from the humanistic to social-scientific. Examines four historians whose work exemplifies these points on the continuum. Suggests synthesis of humanistic and…

Discusses the use of novels in a Latin American history course. Provides a theoretical basis for the course. Outlines course format, class assignments, and reading lists. Points out the value of the novel to students in understanding the history of Latin America. (RW)

Critiques Diane Ravitch's suggestions for the revival of history in the school curriculum. Characterizes her arguments as conservative and compares her to the anti-progressives of the 1950s. Calls for less emphasis on traditional history and discusses alternative conceptions of history. Examines the California History Social Science Framework. (KO)

Describes LaGuardia Community College's American Social History Project. Focuses on four aspects of the program: a multi-media curriculum based on the recollections and writings of the "unsung heroes" and ordinary people who shaped U.S. history; a thematically integrated cluster of four courses; a pedagogy of collaborative learning; and…

Based on recent critiques of Soviet and American textbooks, this article discusses educators' differing assumptions concerning what students should learn, who should decide what they learn, how students learn, how geography and history curriculum should be organized, and how much choice teachers should have. Includes eight references. (MLH)

Finds that the explicit definition of writing in history is "argumentation" but that the implicit expectation is for narrative. Argues that this apparent contradiction highlights the central function of academic historical discourse: the establishment of an autonomous subject of meaning that speaks from outside history about a distant and…

Traces the history and culture of the Nubia, a long-neglected African civilization beside the Nile River. (MDH)