Author: Henry AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A Letter to American Teachers of History
Author: Henry AdamsWritings on American History
Author: Lies My Teacher Told Me
Author: James W. LoewenPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595583262
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Teaching History
Author: William CaferroPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119147123
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
A practical and engaging guide to the art of teaching history Well-grounded in scholarly literature and practical experience, Teaching History offers an instructors’ guide for developing and teaching classroom history. Written in the author’s engaging (and often humorous) style, the book discusses the challenges teachers encounter, explores effective teaching strategies, and offers insight for managing burgeoning technologies. William Caferro presents an assessment of the current debates on the study of history in a broad historical context and evaluates the changing role of the discipline in our increasingly globalized world. Teaching History reveals that the valuable skills of teaching are highly transferable. It stresses the importance of careful organization as well as the advantages of combining research agendas with teaching agendas. Inspired by the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning movement, the book encourages careful reflection on teaching methods and stresses the importance of applying various approaches to promote active learning. Drawing on the author’s experience as an instructor at the high school and university levels, Teaching History: Contains an authoritative and humorous look at the profession and the strategies and techniques of teaching history Incorporates a review of the current teaching practice in terms of previous methods, examining nineteenth and twentieth century debates and strategies Includes a discussion of the use of technology in the history classroom, from the advent of course management (Blackboard) systems to today’s digital resources Covers techniques for teaching the history of any nation not only American history Written for graduate and undergraduate students of history teaching and methods, historiography, history skills, and education, Teaching History is a comprehensive book that explores the strategies, challenges, and changes that have occurred in the profession.
Webster's Guide to American History
Author: Charles Van DorenPublisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877790815
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1530
Book Description
A History of American Literature
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
A History of American Literature: Later national literature: pt. 3
Author: American Literature from the 1850s to 1945
Author: Adam Augustyn Assistant Manager and Assistant Editor, LiteraturePublisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 1615301321
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
Explores the works, writers, and movements that shaped the American literary canon from the end of the nineteenth century through the first half of the twentith.
A Short History of American Literature Based Upon the Cambridge Histor of American Literature
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Proceedings of the Association of History Teachers of the Middle States and Maryland
Author: Association of History Teachers of the Middle States and MarylandPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description