College expansion throughout the twentieth century was accompanied by the growth of a profession centered on supporting student learning and development. Higher Education and Student Affairs (HESA) programs multiplied across the United States to train these professionals with a focus on administration, leadership, and student affairs. As…

Over fifty years ago, Merle Curti sought to open up the academic study of philanthropy - the phenomenon of voluntary giving for public purposes - or what historians and reformers have commonly called "neighborliness," "beneficence," or simply, as translated from the Greek word "philanthropia," "love of…

A college teacher discusses how in his U.S. history survey course he uses the buildings in Philadelphia to illuminate the principal forces of national history. For example, colonial buildings and street plans can help students understand the bourgeois character of early Philadelphia and of other American cities. (RM)

Tests four historical propositions of ethnic partisans by reference to the history of Wisconsin. The propositions are: racism is a disease of Americans of British ancestry; foreign born won the Civil War for the North; Americanization is "really Waspification;" and the melting pot is a comparatively recent myth. (RM)

Cited in this annotated bibliography are ERIC documents that may be of particular interest to history teachers. (RM)

Examines U.S. history from the perspective of radical historians. America has always provided a particularly favorable environment for positive imaginings of the past by the Left. (RM)

Recounts the life and writings of noted U. S. historian, Carl Becker. Provides an analysis of his influence on the academic study of European history in the United States. (JDH)

Carl Becker's contribution to the philosophy of historical relativism is presented. Three ideas central to historical relativism are: 1) the subjectivity of historical facts, 2) history as a product of the historian's imagination, and 3) the influence of the contemporary "climate of opinion" in shaping the historian's view of the past.…

Materials cited and discussed should prove useful in integrating the Korean involvement into the writing and teaching of secondary and college level U.S. history texts. (RM)

Advocates the need for social studies and history educators to have students more thoroughly explore the heritage of American radicalism. The author lists and describes an extensive number of books that can enhance this task. (RKM)

The Library of Congress has indexed and microfilmed its collection of presidential papers as the Presidential Papers Microfilm Series, which is now available to scholars and students. Each collection of presidential papers in the series is briefly described. (RM)

Research in the area of environmental attitudes and natural resource use during the past century was reviewed. The three periods of greatest historical interest parallel the chronology of the movement itself. A preservation-utilitarian division and historiographical themes of conflict and consensus are reflected by its historians. (Author/AM)

Describes how a teacher may use the "Virginia Gazette" in a history course, discusses ways of overcoming the problems of cost and equipment, and offers teaching suggestions. (CK)

Presents rationale for including business history surveys and seminars in the curriculum of the contemporary business student. The approach is a pragmatic response to the need to expand and diversify history departments. Also, major corporations are good sources of corporate history and archival programs. (Author/KC)

A project that locates and preserves sources of local history material about the Queens borough in New York, a Chatauqua program that presents a first-hand account of life on the frontier, efforts to introduce public history as a university course, and research that focuses on Dwight Eisenhower's presidency of Columbia University are described.…