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Kanstroom, Emily – Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad, 2007
On June 28, 1951, France ratified the 1949 Geneva Conventions, which prohibited the torture of prisoners of war. On August 2, 1955, the United States of America ratified the same document. Between 1954 and 1962, France fought a war against Algeria, which sought its independence from colonial rule. From September 11, 2001 until the present, the…
Descriptors: United States History, Foreign Countries, Terrorism, War
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Harison, Casey – History Teacher, 2002
This article considers the "myths" and negative images of the French Revolution which were fashioned in the United States by examining interpretations found in nineteenth and twentieth-century American school texts. The texts are part of the Floyd Family Collection at Indiana State University, representing books used in Indiana schools,…
Descriptors: Historiography, European History, Textbooks, Conflict
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Bolton, Marie – History Teacher, 2003
The author's teaching experience in France began in 1994 when she was offered a two-year position as "maitre de langues" (language instructor) at the University of Saint Etienne Engineering School. She had moved to France from Berkeley, California, the previous year along with a newborn baby and crates of photocopied archival material…
Descriptors: United States History, American Studies, Foreign Countries, Teaching Experience
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1896
This is Volume 1 of the Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year 1893-94, containing Part I. This volume includes the Commissioner of Education's Introduction and Part I, which contains the chapters: (1) Whole Number of Pupils and Students; (2) Consolidated Statistics of State and City Common School Systems; (3) Statistical Review of…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Statistical Data, Public Schools, Secondary Education
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1902
After the Commissioner of Education's introduction, Volume 1 presents state school system statistics and a list of U.S. Bureau of Education publications. Chapters cover central European education; Ohio public school legislative history; school consolidation and pupil transportation; U.S. industrial education; educational pathology; formation of an…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Public Schools, Educational Legislation, Student Transportation
United States Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1900
The Volume 1 Commissioner of Education's introduction discusses school and college enrollment and presents state common-school statistics on enrollment, average daily attendance, teachers and salaries, revenues and expenditures, and expenditures in Southern states by race. Report chapters address education in Great Britain and Ireland,…
Descriptors: Enrollment, Statistical Data, Public Schools, Attendance