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Ye, Anyi – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
History textbooks often cause friction in diplomatic relations between nations, especially between East Asian countries. Several studies have demonstrated that revisions to history textbooks can be the result of changes in a state's interests, resulting in different, often conflicting, accounts of historical events in history textbooks that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, History Instruction, Textbook Content
Kuehner, Trudy – Foreign Policy Research Institute, 2008
On July 26-27, 2008, FPRI's Wachman Center hosted 37 teachers from across the country for a weekend of discussion on teaching U.S. Military history. Sessions included: (1) The Revolutionary War and Early American Military History (Kyle Zelner); (2) The Mexican-American War (Paul Springer); (3) The Civil War (Mark Grimsley); (4) The Frontier Years…
Descriptors: United States History, War, World History, History Instruction
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Varona, Frank – Social Studies Texan, 1992
Discusses the commemoration of the 500th anniversary of Columbus' arrival in the Americas. Criticizes contemporary condemnation of Columbus as unproductive. Acknowledges the deaths of countless Native Americans through disease and warfare. Recognizes that the pre-Columbian Americas did not comprise a paradise. Concludes that commemorating the…
Descriptors: American Indian History, Criticism, Culture Conflict, Diseases
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Muresianu, John – History Teacher, 1984
Surveyed is the recent historiography of the moral dimensions of war, revolution, slavery, and cultural decline, showing gaps that need to be filled and pointing to pioneering works of moral history written mostly by nonhistorians. The outline of a new moral history is sketched and implications for higher education suggested. (RM)
Descriptors: Culture, Educational Needs, Ethical Instruction, Ethics
Haas, Mary E. – 1998
During the past five years there has been new research into the teaching of history to children. Many educators are advocating once again the teaching of history through concepts. This elementary school unit uses the concept approach to teaching history. The lesson examines the concept of war and wars' impact on the lives of a variety of people.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
Dalhuisen, Leo, Ed.; And Others – 1991
This paper discusses a project that was designed to explore Dutch student attitudes about World War II and how the War is portrayed in Dutch history textbooks. The project was undertaken as part of an effort to help teachers provide Dutch students with better insight into the causes, background, and aftermath of World War II; and to develop in the…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Content Analysis, Controversial Issues (Course Content), Curriculum Development