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Cooley, Aaron – International Journal of Social Education, 2009
This paper presents a discussion of Howard Zinn's intellectual and political ideas. Through the analysis of selections from his immense body of work, several interrelated themes emerge. Drawing more attention to these notions of dissent and democracy is crucial to revitalizing education at all levels and vital to advancing the public discourse…
Descriptors: Dissent, Educational Philosophy, Politics, Democracy
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Branting, Steven D. – History Teacher, 2009
A historical fact is like a fata morgana, "always less than what really happened." Even consensus does not establish truth; otherwise history is merely the version of the past that people agree to accept. The students who participated in the acclaimed 5th Street Cemetery Necrogeographical Study innocently found themselves clashing with…
Descriptors: Local History, City Government, United States History, Perspective Taking
Franks, Betty Barclay; Taylor, Nancy – 1995
This booklet contains 12 lessons about the history of Ohio correlated to the proficiency outcomes of the "Grade 4 Proficiency Test Outcomes in Ohio." Lessons include: (1) "Emigrating to Ohio"; (2) "The Era of Expansion"; (3) "Finding Out about Ohio"; (4) "Emigrating to Ohio"; (5) "Settling in…
Descriptors: Grade 4, History Instruction, Instructional Materials, Intermediate Grades
Hardesty, Carolyn, Ed. – Goldfinch, 1989
Most of the material for this issue of the "Goldfinch," which explores the life of Carrie Chapman Catt, came from the archives of the State Historical Society of Iowa. Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947) was an Iowan who advocated woman suffrage and spent 26 years actively working for that cause. The issue contains a biography of Catt, and…
Descriptors: Biographies, Elementary Education, Females, Learning Activities
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. Div. of Humanities and Secondary Administration. – 1982
A three-part handbook for Virginia K-12 social studies teachers presents methods for introducing students to documents and symbols which reflect the principles and ideals of the American democratic system. Although a portion of the material focuses on resources specific to the state of Virginia, information on national documents and symbols can be…
Descriptors: Democracy, Democratic Values, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Materials
Madison, James H. – 1987
The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which provided for government of the largely unsettled frontier area north of the Ohio River and for an orderly, three-stage transition of the territories from control by national government to full and equal statehood, joins the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution to form a trinity of…
Descriptors: Civil Rights, Governance, Government (Administrative Body), Land Settlement
Department of the Interior, Washington, DC. – 1983
Volume II of the final report of the Native Hawaiians Study Commission (NHSC) on the culture, needs, and concerns of native Hawaiians, this book contains a formal dissent to the conclusions and recommendations presented in Volume I made by three of the NHSC commissioners. Its principal criticism is that Volume I fails to address the underlying…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Federal State Relationship, Hawaiians, Legal Responsibility
Wilson's Creek National Battlefield Foundation, Springfield, MO. – 1983
Intended as a local history unit for secondary students in southwest Missouri, materials in this packet focus on a major battle in the Civil War. After reading a narrative and examining maps of the area, students study the impact of the battle on Missouri history, learn more about the environment and cultural history of the area, and develop an…
Descriptors: Civil War (United States), Instructional Materials, Local History, Secondary Education
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Switala, William J. – Social Studies Journal, 1984
The major recommendation was the formulation of an American and Pennsylvania studies program in a 9th- and 10th-grade sequence. The rationale for abandoning the traditional two-year program offered in the 8th and 11th grades or the U.S. history survey course is presented. Recommendations regarding elementary grades are also discussed. (RM)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Alexander, Mary; Childress, Marilyn – Social Education, 1981
Suggests ways in which primary source materials--in this case, census materials describing Cherokee Indians in the early 19th century--can be used by social studies classroom teachers to help students understand historical events and trends. Teaching methods based on the census materials are suggested, including map and globe work, filling in work…
Descriptors: American Indians, Census Figures, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnic Studies
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Russell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2011
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2010 proceedings, see ED509647.]
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Social Studies, Conference Papers, Annual Reports
Loss, Christopher P. – Princeton University Press, 2011
This book tracks the dramatic outcomes of the federal government's growing involvement in higher education between World War I and the 1970s, and the conservative backlash against that involvement from the 1980s onward. Using cutting-edge analysis, Christopher Loss recovers higher education's central importance to the larger social and political…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Higher Education, United States History, Educational History
Isserman, Maurice – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2007
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) was the principal campus radical organization of the 1960s. When SDS first took form in 1960-62 under the leadership of Al Haber and Tom Hayden, it was a small organization of a few hundred members. By the time the author joined the Reed College chapter as a freshman in 1968, SDS had grown into a very large…
Descriptors: Democracy, Politics of Education, Student Organizations, United States History
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Marcus, Alan S.; Stoddard, Jeremy D. – History Teacher, 2007
Reported in this article are the results of research that explored which feature films teachers are using to teach high school United States history and how and why they are using these films. The terms "feature film" and "Hollywood film" are used throughout to refer to movies commercially created for a mass audience, often for…
Descriptors: United States History, Films, Mass Media Use, History Instruction
Roach, Ronald – Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, 2007
This article describes how Dr. Ben Vinson III, the new director of the Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University and a specialist in Latin American history, is strengthening the center's internationalist orientation. While it took more than three decades for Johns Hopkins University to approve a Black studies program in its arts and…
Descriptors: Black Studies, United States History, College Faculty, Colleges
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