A DEVELOPMENTAL CONFERENCE, CONSISTING OF LEADING AUTHORITIES IN HISTORY AND RELATED DISCIPLINES, WAS HELD IN JUNE 1964. THE SUGGESTIONS AND DIRECTIVES OF THE CONFERENCE WERE IMPLEMENTED. PRELIMINARY SAMPLING VISITS WERE MADE AT REPRESENTATIVE INSTITUTIONS, AND MATERIALS AND INSTRUMENTS FOR THE MAJOR INVESTIGATION PREPARED. RESEARCH PROCEDURES…

Southeast Europe is viewed as a microcosm of today's world. Southeast Europe belongs in history textbooks, whether regional, western, or world. (RM)

This book is developed to make the teaching and learning of history a powerful and enjoyable experience in the classroom through the study of historical mysteries. What better place to snoop around and dig through mysterious graves than in history class? This book takes ten mysterious events in history from ancient Egypt to the 21st century for…

In January 1997, Michael Berenbaum became president and chief executive officer of Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, the organization established by filmmaker Steven Spielberg after completing "Schindler's List." Since 1994, the foundation has been recording eyewitness testimony on the Holocaust. Berenbaum's mandate is to…

This study reports the impact of consistently using a Socratic Seminar to interpret historical documents written by women on 9th grade students' historical empathy. Over the course of one semester in a year-long world history course, the class examined three documents written by women living in the complex time period being studied and discussed…

These essays were written to assist teachers in the task of making Russian history intelligible to young U.S. students. In "An Approach to Russian History," Edward Keenan proposes that students need to gain a better understanding of how Russians perceive themselves and their history. In "Pre-Petrine Russia," Andrzej S. Kaminski…

This article identifies selected sources and resources useful for teaching world history including: 1) items concerning the rationale for teaching; 2) approaches to world history; 3) helpful reference works; 4) practical guides; 5) journals; 6) games and simulation; and 7) organizations. (JR)

Upon completion of these two lessons, high school students will be able to distinguish between power and authority and analyze how individuals or groups exercise power. The lesson, which can be used in world history classes, deals with the period of time between the two world wars. (RM)

During the post war years the League of Nations Union Movement in Britain worked through the schools and converted pro-league sentiment into specific government policies. The history classroom was the focal point of the L.N.U.'s educational effort so that new generations would grow up ready to support enlightened foreign policies and the work of…

Discusses opposing tendencies in the interpretation of Western Civilization. Describes the expanded definition that includes Byzantine and Islamic cultures as heirs of the Greco-Roman cultures. Suggests that a limited definition of Western culture will facilitate a problems approach, emphasize diversity among cultures, and integrate the classical…

Discusses how the concept of the west developed, circumstances leading to western civilization courses, and how the western European self-conception was received in America around the turn of the century and embodied in high school and college curricula. Limiting studies to the west excludes the rest of humanity. Suggests that situating the west…

Examines to what extent representative history textbooks used in American high schools encourage development of historical analysis and interpretation, one of five standards issued by the National Center for History in the Schools. Treatment of the Aztec Empire and the Cold War varied widely in the four textbooks studied. All texts failed the new…

Observes that resistant students in the college history classroom need to be intrigued by history through the unexpected. Recommends that educators use the study, preparation, and consumption of food as a means to engaging students in historical discussions about different ideologies, events, and places throughout history. (CMK)

Because of the importance of diplomacy, it is a valuable subject for the social studies classroom. In a crowded curriculum, however, the art of international diplomacy can easily get less attention than it deserves. One way of teaching it is to focus on the diplomacy associated with a major event that is part of the typical history curriculum. The…

This study examines the post-socialist transition in the secondary education history programme in Kazakhstan from 1990 to the present. The article examines the influence of policy talk and action upon official educational policy, and how the deployment of a new national narrative is being used to construct a de-Sovietized-re-Kazakhified national…