Teaching the Method of History: A Documentary Exercise.

Walker, J. Samuel

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ERIC Number: EJ186044

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1978

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Teaching the Method of History: A Documentary Exercise

Walker, J. Samuel

History Teacher, 11, 4, 471-82, Aug 78

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)

Descriptors: Convergent Thinking, Higher Education, Historiography, History Instruction, Learning Activities, Primary Sources, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods

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