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Direct linkOlwell, Russell – History Teacher, 2007
It is not too early to ask what legacy the Teaching American History grants will leave behind. Put another way, when all the money is spent, when all the seminars are done, when all the professional development has ended, what evidence will there be that the program ever existed? Will historians in the future look back at the evidence left behind…
Descriptors: Historians, Grants, United States History, History Instruction
Metzger, Scott Alan; Suh, Yonghee – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2008
The popularity of VHS and DVD over the past two decades has greatly expanded the influence of history movies, watched by millions of adolescents in homes and classrooms. This paper examines two secondary U.S. history teachers' instructional uses of history motion pictures in their classrooms. Ray used The Patriot (2000) to teach history as stories…
Descriptors: Films, History Instruction, Instructional Materials, United States History
Warren, Wilson J. – History Teacher, 2007
One of the great challenges for the Teaching American History (TAH) grant program is changing conventional K-12 history pedagogy. The literature is full of a myriad of complaints about the traditionally poor pedagogy of secondary school history teachers. History faculty are among the most severe critics. Yet their complaints are often fuzzy and…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), United States History, Teaching Methods, Grants
Hall, Timothy D.; Scott, Renay – History Teacher, 2007
The aim of the Central Michigan University Alpena-Montmorency-Alcona Teaching American History (TAH) Project has been to forge a model of professional development that would not merely improve teachers' knowledge of events, people, and dates, but to go beyond this to strengthen the understanding of the nature and practice of historical thinking,…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Primary Sources, United States History, Professional Development
Friedman, Hal M. – History Teacher, 2001
This article is an exploration of how the new early American cultural history can be employed in the first half of the standard American history survey. The author discovered that the New Cultural History can be an outstanding tool by which to introduce a highly culturally diverse student population to the multiracial, multicultural, and…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, United States History, Course Objectives, Museums
Peer reviewedJacobson, Daniel – Michigan Social Studies Journal, 1989
Encourages geography teachers to use biographies to reveal a sense of place and life in a given geographical context. Highlights the life of John Mullett, a surveyor during the settlement of Michigan as a model for using biography in geography instruction appropriate for grades 6-12. Includes surveyor maps and sources of additional biographies.…
Descriptors: Biographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction, Human Geography
