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Volume XXVI, Number 1, Spring 2001

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THE LINKED COURSE: A VIABLE OPTION FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING HISTORY 
by Maureen Murphy Nutting
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FILMS FOR OUR TIME: USING "INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS" TO TEACH RECENT AMERICAN HISTORY 
by Neil Liss and Cameron White 
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USING SCHOOL REFORM TO TEACH MODERN U.S. HISTORY 
by Rosetta Marantz Cohen
22
Reviews
Art and Life in Africa, CD-Rom Program with Teacher's Guide, by Cheedy Jaja 36
Sturdy, Louis XIV, by Marilyn Morris 38
Floud, The People and the British Economy, 1830-1914; Pope, The British Economy Since 1914, by Fred R. van Hartesveldt  39
Kitchen, The British Empire and Commonwealth: A Short History; Rubinstein, Britain's Century: A Political and Social History 1815-1905, by Richard A. Voeltz  40
Purdue, The Second World War, by Paul E. Fuller 43
Lowe, ed., The Vietnam War, by Mark H. Davis  44
Toplin, ed., Oliver Stone's U.S.A.: Film, History and Controversy, by Tom Pynn 45
Madaras & SoRelle, eds., Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American History. Vol. II: Reconstruction to the Present, by Gordon E. Harvey 47
Dickinson, ed., Britain and the American Revolution, by Annette Laing 49
Leviatin, ed., How the Other Half Lives, by Margaret A. Lowe 50
Woloch, Muller v. Oregon: A Brief History with Documents, by Jeffrey S. Cole 51
Iriye, ed., Pearl Harbor and the Coming of the Pacific War: A Brief History with Documents and Essays, by Jeffrey C. Livingston 53
Murray & Millett, A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War, by Michael Marino 54
Remembering the Forgotten War: The Korean War in American History, 60-minute video and Study Guide, by Jeffrey S. Kaplan 55

Volume XXVI, Number 2, Fall 2001

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THEATER ACROSS THE CURRICULUM: IN THE HISTORY CLASSROOM
by Gayle V. Fischer and Susan Spector
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PUTTING THE WORLD IN WORLD HISTORY TEXTBOOKS
by William A. Paquette
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SINGING AMERICAN HISTORY 
by Fred Nielsen 
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PASSPORT TO THE MILLENNIUM
by Mary Grace Yost
98
Reviews
Seip, "We Shall Gladly Teach": Preparing History Graduate Students for the Classroom, by Susan Wunder 102
Nardo, ed., The Rise of Christianity, by Tia M. Kolbaba    103
Johnson, The Dreyfus Affair: Honour and Politics in the Belle Èpoch, by Walter Lowrie 104
Werner, ed., The American Revolution, by John H. Frederick   105
Tyson, Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams & the Roots of Black Power, by Paul Gaffney 107
Mayers, Wars and Peace: The Future Americans Envisioned, 1861-1991, by Robert J. Hanyok 108
Stalcup, ed., Women's Suffrage, by Thomas F. Armstrong 109
Hurley, The 1960s, by Richard A. Greenwald 110
"SATIS EST," a poem by Franklin L. Gilson 112

Volume XXVII, Number 1, Spring 2002

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TEACHING THE SILK ROAD: A JOURNEY OF PEDAGOGICAL DISCOVERY
by A.J. Andrea and William Mierse
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PUTTING EASTERN EUROPE BACK INTO WESTERN CIVILIZATION: OR, WHY IS THE RUSSIAN STUFF ALWAYS AT THE END?
by John K. Cox
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BUILDING HIGHER-ORDER HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS IN A COLLEGE SURVEY CLASS
by Russell Olwell
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Reviews
Trinkle & Merriman, eds., History.edu: Essays on Teaching with Technology, by John R. Moore 33
Loades, Power in Tudor England; Lockyer, James VI & I; Hirst, England in Conflict, 1603-1660BKingdom, Community, Commonwealth, by Michael J. Salevouris 34
Archer, Social Unrest and Popular Protest in England 1780-1840, by Roy Schreiber 37
Napoleon, Video, by Richard A. Voeltz 38
Davis, A History of Britain, 1885-1939; Pugh, Britain Since 1789: A Concise History, by Abraham D. Kriegel 40
McDonough, Hitler and Nazi Germany; Neville, The Holocaust, by Thomas Saylor 42
Clark, Heweitt, Rosenzweig, Brier, Brown, & Foner, eds., Who Built America?  Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. I; Lichtenstein, Strasser, Rosenzweig, Brier, Brown, eds., Who Built America? Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, Vol. II, by Lisa W. Phillips 44
Rakove, Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents; Wills, A Necessary Evil: A History of American Distrust of Government, by Tom Pynn 47
Clinton, ed., Southern Families at War: Loyalty and Conflict in the Civil War South, by Jean A. Stuntz 50
Baylis, Anglo-American Relations since 1939: The Enduring Alliance; Ryan, The United Nations and International Politics, by Christy Jo Snider 51
Roleff, ed., The Atom Bomb, by Brian Boland 53
Swisher, ed., John F. Kennedy, by Lawrence B. de Graaf 55

Volume XXVII, Number 2, Fall 2002

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A "GREAT ROADS" APPROACH TO TEACHING MODERN WORLD HISTORY AND LATIN AMERICAN REGIONAL SURVEY COURSES: A VERACRUZ TO MEXICO CITY CASE STUDY

by James Seay Brown, Jr. and Douglass Sullivan-González

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ACTING OUT NAZI GERMANY: A ROLE-PLAY SIMULATION FOR THE HISTORY CLASSROOM

by W. Gregory Monahan

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LOCAL STUDIES AND LARGER ISSUES: THE CASE OF SARA BAGBY

by Judith Luckett

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TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST AS A LESSON IN REMEMBERING AND SAYING "NO" TO HATE: A TESTIMONIAL

by Emily Alsip

98

Reviews

Mitford, Madame de Pompadour, by Laura Musselwhite

102

Jacob, The Enlightenment: A Brief History with Documents; Porter, The Enlightenment; Munck, The Enlightenment: A Comparative Social History, 1721B1794,by Robert B. Luehrs

103

Morrison, Slavery and the American West: The Eclipse of Manifest Destiny and the Coming of the Civil War, by Robert H. Gudmestad

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Tulloch, The Debate on the American Civil War Era,by Robert Page

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Sittser, A Cautious Patriotism: The American Churches and the Second World War, by Jill K. Gill

108

Morehouse, Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Men and Women Remember World War II, by Christopher C. Lovett

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Winters, ed., The Civil Rights Movement; Siebold, ed., Martin Luther King, Jr., by Sarah L. Swedberg

110

Volume XXVIII, Number 1, Spring 2003

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EXPLORING THE ATLANTIC WORLD: AN EXPERIMENT IN TEACHING AN EMERGING PARADIGM

by Annette Laing

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USING LOCAL HISTORY TO UNDERSTAND NATIONAL THEMES: THE YELLOW FEVER EPIDEMIC IN PHILADEPHIA IN 1793

by Susan Westbury

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COLLECTING STORIES ABOUT STRIP-MINING: USING ORAL HISTORY IN THE CLASSROOM

by William Kerrigan

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USING FIRST-PERSON SOURCES TO TEACH THE VIETNAM WAR

by Joe P. Dunn

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A TEACHING NOTE: GETTING STARTED IN A COURSE ON HISTORICAL METHOD

by Luther P. Carpenter

37
Reviews
Thompson, ed., The Renaissance, by S. Rex Morrow 43
Swisher, ed., Victorian England, by Robert Blackey 44
Donald & Rees, eds., Reinterpreting Revolution in Twentieth-Century Europe, by Daniel Levinson 45
Hullar & Nelson, The United States: A Brief Narrative History, by Larry Madaras 46
Deverell & Hyde, eds., The West in the History of the Nation: A Reader, by David Arnold 48
Enslow & Enslow, Music of the American Colonies, by Mary E. Quinlivan 49
Slaughter, ed., Common Sense and Related Writings, by Thomas Paine, by William H. Mulligan, Jr. 50
Cunningham, Jr., ed., Jefferson vs. Hamilton: Confrontations that Shaped a Nation, by Peter Gregg Slater 51
Johnson, ed., Abraham Lincoln, Slavery, and the Civil War: Selected Writings and Speeches, by Michael L. Tate 52
Roberts, The Brother: The Untold Story of Atomic Spy David Greenglass and How He Sent His Sister, Ethel Rosenberg, to the Electric Chair, by Richard Melzer 54
Cannato, The Ungovernable City: John Lindsay and His Struggle to Save New York, by Michael Marino 55

Volume XXVIII, Number 2, Fall 2003

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WOUNDED KNEE, 1890: HISTORICAL EVIDENCE ON TRIAL IN THE CLASSROOM

by Andrew Johnson

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FINDING THE SOURCES: A HISTORIAN AND A LIBRARIAN UNITE

by Gayle V. Fischer and Mia Morgan

70

EXPLAINING HISTORY IN A NUTSHELL

by Eileen H. Tamura

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REAL WORK, NOT BUSY WORK: THE PLACE PAPER

by David Hsiung

92

Reviews
Pernoud & Clin, Joan of Arc: Her Story, by Tia M. Kolbaba 97
McGurk, The Tudor Monarchies 1485-1603, by Charles McAllister 98
Todd, Revolutions, 1789-1917, by Thomas Tandy Lewis 99
Mombauer, The Origins of the First World War: Controversies and Consensus, by Michael Salevouris 100
Service, The Russian Revolution, 1900-1927; White, Lenin: The Practice and Theory of Revolution, by William B. Whisenhunt 101
Calhoun, ed., The Human Tradition in America from the Colonial Era through Reconstruction, by George W. Geib 103
Barth, ed., The Lewis and Clark Expedition: Selections from the Journals Arranged by Topic, by Katherine Hughes 104
Hodges, ed., Black Itinerants of the Gospel: The Narratives of John Jea and George White, by James S. Baugess 106
Linden, ed., Voices from the Gathering Storm: The Coming of the American Civil War, by Ralph Peters 107
Walker, We Can't Go Home Again: An Argument about Afrocentrism, by Fred R. van Hartesveldt 108
Nardo, ed., The Great Depression, by Kelly A. Woestman 109
Watkins, The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America, by Richard D. Starnes 111
Murray, ed., What Did the Internment of Japanese Americans Mean?, by Eileen H. Tamura 112

Volume XXIX, Number 1, Spring 2004

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INTEGRATING PRIMARY AND SECONDARY SOURCES: A MODEL FROM EARLY AMERICA

by James E. McWilliams

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TEACHING CLASS: LABOR AND WORKING-CLASS HISTORY IN THE U.S. SURVEY
by Randi Storch

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AFRICA IN THE WORLD: LESSONS FROM AFRICAN HISTORY FOR WORLD HISTORY
by Kathleen R. Smythe

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REAL WORK, NOT BUSY WORK, PART II: THE PRIMARY SOURCE PAPER
by David C. Hsiung   

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Reviews  
Booth & Hyland, eds., The Practice of University History Teaching, by Timothy Berg 41
Stearns, Seixas, & Wineburg, eds., Knowing, Teaching, and Learning History: National and International Perspectives, by Gregory S. Wilson 42
Dunn, Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light, by Jerry Hopkins 43
Nardo, ed., Charles Darwin, by Robert W. Brown 44
Queen Victoria's Empire, by Richard A. Voeltz 46
Stalcup, ed., Adolph Hitler; Nicholls, Weimar and the Rise of Hitler, by John K. Cox 48
Wood, Churchill, by Harry E. Wade 50
Winters, ed., The Collapse of the Soviet Union; Read, The Making and Breaking of the Soviet System: An Interpretation, by Elizabeth J. Wilcoxson 51
Woodworth, ed., The Loyal, True, and Brave: America's Civil War Soldiers; Ashdown & Caudill, The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend, by Michael E. Long 53

Volume XXIX, Number 2, Fall 2004

 

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THE "BIG PICTURE" MODEL FOR LEARNING WORLD HISTORY, OR SLIPPING BETWEEN THE ROCKS AND HARD PLACES
by Mark Newman

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TEACHING MODERN AMERICAN HISTORY IN AN HONORS PROGRAM

by William M. Simons

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"GREAT THINKER'S DAY"--OR CAPTURING THE LARGEST POSSIBLE AUDIENCE ON CAMPUS

by Mari Firkatian

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Reviews

Antonio & Warren, Teaching History in the Digital Classroom, by Diane Cook & Russell Olwell

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Spongberg, Writing Women's History Since the Renaissance, by Laura Musselwhite

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Stafford, John Stuart Mill, by Joseph Coohill

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Black, ed., European Warfare: 1815-2000, by Raymond J. Jirran

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Springhall, Decolonization Since 1945: The Collapse of European Overseas Empires, by Jerry L. Summers

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Nitobe, Bushido: The Soul of Japan, by Tom Pynn

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Jordan & Litwack, The United States: Conquering a Continent, by Karol K. Weaver

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Middleton, Colonial America: A History, 1565-1776, by Monica Rico

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Dudley, ed., American Slavery, by Steven G. Collins

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Brands, The Reckless Decade: American in the 1890s, by Mark Davis

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Collins & Gitelman, Thomas Edison and Modern America: A Brief History with Documents, by C. David Dalton

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Moran, The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents, by Jonathan P. Spiro

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Finan, Alfred E. Smith: The Happy Warrior, by Donn C. Neal

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Cohen, ed., Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters from Children of the Great Depression, by Scott A. Merriman

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Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s, by Daniel O. Gilmartin

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Gillon, The American Paradox: A History of the United States Since 1945, by William E. Doody

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Sobel, The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam, by Lucinda Baker

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Volume XXX, Number 1, Spring 2005

 

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INTERNATIONALIZING THE TEACHING OF EARLY U.S. HISTORY

by John F. Lyons

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TEACHING HISTORY AS THE REENACTMENT OF PAST EXPERIENCE

by Anthony Pattiz

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A PROPOSAL FOR REVISING THE HISTORY SENIOR SEMINAR COURSE

by Charles M. Dobbs

32

Teaching with On-Line Primary Sources: Documents from NARA

FIRST BLOOD IN BALTIMORE: THE INDICTMENT OF SAMUEL MACTIER

by Daniel F. Rulli

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Reviews  
Williams, The Historian's Toolbox: A Student Guide to the Theory and Craft of History, by Milton Ready 43
Homel, Unlocking City Hall: Exploring the History of Local Government and Politics, by Herbert Janick 44
Manning, Navigating World HIstory: Historians Create a Global Past, by Margaret Sankey 45
Marks, The Illusion of Peace: International Relations in Europe, 1918-1933, by Michael W. Howell 46
Eubank, The Origins of World War II, by Thomas Saylor 47
Marvel, The Salem Witch Trials, by Jill K. Gill 48
Chaffin, Pathfinder: Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire, by David E. Woodward 50
Zieger, America's Great War: World War I and the American Experience, by Stephen A. Bourque 51
Harth, ed., Last Witness: Reflections on the Wartime Internment of Japanese Americans, by Robert C. Sims 52
Small, Antiwarriors: The Vietnam War and the Battle for America's Hearts and Minds, by William F. Mugleston 53
Williams, ed., The Terrorist Attack on America, by Lawrence B. de Graaf 55
Rielly, ed., Baseball and American Culture: Across the Diamond, by Thomas F. Armstrong 56

Volume XXX, Number 2, Fall 2005

 

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TO ILLUMINATE HISTORY: MAKING HISTORY PICTURE-PERFECT

by Robert Blackey

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WOMEN'S HISTORY THROUGH FAMILY HISTORY: A VARIATION ON A THEME

by Christy Jo Snider

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SIMULATIONS, SOURCES, AND THE HISTORY SURVEY COURSE: MAKING THE INTERNET MATTER

by Brian McKenzie

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Teaching with On-Line Primary Sources: Documents from NARA

 

SHEPHERDING THE SPACE PROGRAM: JFK AND LIFTOFF

by Daniel F. Rulli

91

Reviews

 

Glynn & Glynn, The Life and Death of Smallpox, by Michael Salevouris

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Lukowski, The European Nobility in the Eighteenth Century, by Michael Marino

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Tolz, Inventing the Nation: Russia, by Steven Sabol

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Johnson, British Imperialism, by Richard A. Voeltz

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Collette & Laybourn, eds., Modern Britain since 1979: A Reader, by Fred von Hartesveldt

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Schweikart & Allen, A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus' Great Discovery to the War on Terror, by C. David Dalton

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Shannon, Atlantic Lives: A Comparative Approach to Early America, by Michael E. Long

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Des Jardins, Women and the Historical Enterprise in America: Gender, Race, and the Politics of Memory, 1800-1945, by Carrie Baker

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Moore, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, and the Struggle for Racial Uplift, by Carl Schulkin

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Rees & Pollack, eds., The Voice of the People: Primary Sources on the History of American Labor, Industrial Relations, and Working Class Culture, by Gregory Wilson

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Horowitz, The Anxieties of Affluence: Critiques of American Consumer Culture, 1939-1979, by Ron Briley

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Reichard, Politics as Usual: The Age of Truman and Eisenhower, by Jeff Broadwater

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Fraser & Murray, America and the World since 1945, by Jeffrey S. Cole

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Volume XXXI, Number 1, Spring 2006

 

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MOCKING POPE AND PREACHER: POPULAR PROPAGANDA IN THE AGE OF REFORMATION

by Christopher Carlsmith

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DEALING WITH ACADEMIC CONFLICTS IN THE CLASSROOM: I, RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ AS A CASE STUDY

by Donald Reid

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“THIS IS WHAT THE UNION DONE”—ONE EXAMPLE OF USING MUSIC TO MAKE HISTORY MATTER

by Robert Woodrum

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Teaching with On-Line Primary Sources: Documents from NARA

 

CAMPAIGNING IN 1928: CHICKENS IN POTS AND CARS IN BACKYARDS

by Daniel F. Rulli

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Reviews

 

Waibel, Martin Luther: A Brief Introduction to His Life and Works, by Robert Blackey 

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Mallet, Mussolini and the Origins of the Second World War, by Joel D. Benson

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Smith, ed., The Holocaust and Other Genocides: History, Representation, Ethics, by Jeffrey S. Cole

49

Read, ed., The Stalin Years: A Reader, by Jerry Hopkins

50

Myers, Jr., Liberty without Anarchy: A History of the Society of the Cincinnati, by William H. Mulligan, Jr.

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Crisp, Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett’s Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution, by Jean A. Stuntz

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Kyvig, Daily Life in the United States, 1920-1940: How Americans Lived Through the ‘Roaring Twenties’ and the Great Depression, by Ronald E. Butchart 

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Brose, A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century, by William B. Whisenhunt

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Volume XXXI, Number 2, Fall 2006

 

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MEDIEVAL CONNECTIONS: ACTIVE LEARNING AND THE TEACHING OF THE MIDDLE AGES
by Phillip C. Adamo

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TEACHING THE MIDDLE EAST: THE PERSPECTIVES METHOD
by Holly Arida
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“IF TEACHERS WOULD ONLY . . . ” HOW STUDENTS VIEW THEIR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE
by William F. Mugleston
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Teaching with On-Line Primary Sources: Documents from NARA

 

BUFFALO BILL: A LIFE IN THREE REELS
by Daniel F. Rulli

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Reviews

 
Gelardi, Born to Rule: Five Reigning Consorts, the Granddaughters of Queen Victoria, by Laura Musselwhite
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Addison, The Unexpected Hero, by Daniel Levinson 97
Zelizer, ed., The American Congress: The Building of Democracy, by Teresa L. Hutchins
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Godbeer, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692, by Edward L. Bond
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Buel, Jr., America on the Brink: How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic, by Matt McCook
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Bradley, ed., Antislavery Political Writings, 1833-1860: A Reader, by Mary Ellen Pethel
102
Southern, The Progressive Era and Race: Reaction and Reform, 1900-1917, by Ralph Peters
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Fleming, The Illusion of Victory: America in World War I, by Stephen A. Bourque
104
Southgate, What is History For?, by Michael Salevouris 106
Kintisch and Cordero, Breaking Away from the Textbook: A Creative Approach to Teaching American History,
by Gregory Wilson
107
De Leon & Griswold del Castillo, North Aztlán: A History of Mexican Americans in the United States, by Matthew A. Redinger
108
Conforti, Saints and Strangers: New England in British North America, by Peter Gregg Slater
109
Chaffin, Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah, by Robert Gudmestad
110

Volume XXXII, Number 1, Spring 2007

 

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USING "INFLUENTIAL PERSONS" TO TEACH WORLD HISTORY
by Fred Nielsen
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THE ROLE OF JOURNAL WRITING IN TEACHING WOMEN’S HISTORY
by Ann Denkler

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USING WARGAMES IN THE CLASSROOM TO TEACH HISTORICAL THOUGHT
by Brad Burenheide
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INTEGRATING BASIC RESEARCH INTO THE U.S. HISTORY SURVEY
by Thomas Dicke
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Teaching with On-Line Primary Sources: Documents from NARA

 

HOLLYWOOD ACTORS’ PARTICIPATION IN WORLD WAR II by Lee A. Gladwin

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Film Review

 
ADDING HOLLYWOOD TO THE AMERICAN HISTORY SURVEY
Steve Blankenship
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Book Reviews
 
McMichael, History on the Web: Using and Evaluating the Internet, by Kelly A. Woestman 45
Lindaman & Ward, History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History, by Gordon R. Mork