Taking a lead from recent articles in "The History Teacher," the author placed history, popular culture, and historical literacy at the core of a history course entitled "Enchanted Capitalism: Myths, Monsters, and Markets." Drawing on folklore, literature, popular culture, and economics, the course explored the rise of…

Dilemmas of means and ends are an enduring theme of all narratives. One kind of story involves the demands of communal loyalty and group survival opposed to personal sentiments and ethical universals. Love and duty, justice and mercy are well known examples of such oppositions. The contradictions are even more excruciating in a multicultural…

Examines strategies students and teachers can use when viewing (and countering) the universal and objective image popular culture diffuses. Focuses on teaching environmental/ecological issues in a grade 11 social studies classroom. Suggests that students must engage texts by "writing themselves" to the conversations these texts initiate.…