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February 2023
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Front Cover: [Norwegian Viking-Age Exhibition (Gjermundbuhjelmen).jpg]. Digital image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by user "Wolfmann" on 11 November 2021. Authored by "Wolfmann," 11 November 2021 (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license). [Link to image at Wikimedia Commons].

Back Cover: [2015 Das Wikinger Festival in Trzcinica.jpg]. Digital image uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by user "Silar" on 22 August 2015. Authored by "Silar," 22 August 2015 (Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license). [Link to image at Wikimedia Commons].

The remnant of an ancient Viking helmet stands on exhibit as an irreplaceable historical artifact at the Museum of Cultural History of the University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway. Meanwhile, re-creations of several helmet designs—and the warriors who used them—embody the spirit of the past at the 2015 Viking Festival in Trzcinica, Poland, site of the Carpathian Troy Open-Air Museum.

This issue of The History Teacher places students at the center of learning through crafting and presenting their own history exhibits. In California, Jean-Paul R. Contreras deGuzman transforms university students into curators of beloved family objects in "'I Realized History Isn't Some Old, Intangible Concept': Lessons from an Asian American History Pop-Up Museum." In Sweden, Henric Bagerius, Izabela A. Dahl, and Jimmy Engren invite secondary school students and trainee teachers to interpret items from their own lives as artifacts in "My Historical Backpack." In Canada, David Ross Alexander enlists high school students to research and recite memorials for fellow alumni in "Clio to the Rescue: In Search of the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute's War Dead." Finally, in West Virginia, Darrin
Cox and Simon Bauer-Leffler transport students of all ages to the Viking Era via a historical reenactment exhibit in "The Efficacy of Living History in an Educational Setting."

We hope you and your students enjoy the possibilities presented in this edition of
The History Teacher, which includes a special focus on Personal and Living History Exhibits.


The History Teacher
Volume 56, No. 2
February 2023

Front Matter | Back Matter

THE CRAFT OF TEACHING

Personal and Living History Exhibits

"I Realized History Isn't Some Old, Intangible Concept": Lessons from an Asian American
History Pop-Up Museum

  by Jean-Paul R. Contreras deGuzman   (pp. 177-208)

My Historical Backpack
  by Henric Bagerius, Izabela A. Dahl, and Jimmy Engren   (pp. 209-231)

Clio to the Rescue: In Search of the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute's War Dead
  by David Ross Alexander   (pp. 233-265)

The Efficacy of Living History in an Educational Setting
  by Darrin Cox and Simon Bauer-Leffler   (pp. 267-289)

REVIEWS

Full Reviews Section   (pp. 291-303)

Bsheer, Rosie. Archive Wars: The Politics of History in Saudi Arabia
  by Nadav Samin

Buckland, Michael K. with Masaya Takayama. Ideology and Libraries: California, Diplomacy, and Occupied Japan, 1945-1952
  by Ann Marie L. Davis

Cullen, Jim. From Memory to History: Television Versions of the Twentieth Century
  by Heather L. Gumbert

Hadley, Dawn M. and Julian D. Richards. The Viking Great Army and the Making of England
  by Oren Falk

Hubbell, Amy L. Hoarding Memory: Covering the Wounds of the Algerian War
  by Beatrice Ivey

Kilcrease, Bethany. Falsehood and Fallacy: How to Think, Read, and Write in the Twenty-First Century
  by Erin N. Bush

Miller, Char. West Side Rising: How San Antonio's 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement
  by Amy M. Hay

Vieth, Jane Karoline. Tempting All the Gods: Joseph P. Kennedy, Ambassador to Great Britain, 1938-1940
  by David Nasaw

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174   Contributors to The History Teacher
304   The History of The History Teacher
305   Questionnaire for Potential Reviewers
306   Membership/Subscription Information
308   Submission Guidelines for The History Teacher

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176   Society for History Education: William & Edwyna Gilbert Award
232   Society for History Education: Eugene Asher Teaching Award
266   Society for History Education: Endless Possibilities
290   Association for Asian Studies: Asia Shorts


CONTRIBUTORS

David Ross Alexander taught history and geography at the Owen Sound Collegiate and Vocational Institute for thirty-two years before the school was closed in 2016. Alexander subsequently completed a Master of Arts in History from the University of Waterloo, graduating in 2018. Both Alexander and his colleague Ryan McManaman were co-recipients of the Canadian Governor General's History Award for Excellence in in Teaching in 2014.

Henric Bagerius is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in History and the Director of Studies at the Centre for Academic Development at the Örebro University in Sweden. He has published articles and books on royal sexuality in late medieval Europe, dress reform in nineteenth-century Scandinavia, and conversion narratives in Swedish nudist journals from the 1930s and 1940s. Bagerius was the recipient of the Örebro Student Union's Excellent Teacher Award in 2016.

Simon Bauer-Leffler serves as a data analyst for the Oregon Department of Human Services. Previously, he was the research coordinator for Oregon State Hospital. Before joining the hospital, he coordinated research efforts between Arizona State University and Starbucks Corporation to support their college achievement plan program. Bauer-Leffler has twelve years of professional research experience in various topics, ranging from community corrections to dental-health knowledge. He specializes in survey research methodology and quantitative analysis.

Darrin Cox, Professor of History at West Liberty University and longtime Viking reenactor who earned his doctorate from Purdue University, is the leader of the Viking Living History Project. He has previously published on the use of living history as early field experience for pre-service teachers and on late medieval noble masculinity's relationship to violence. As faculty adviser to WLU's History Club, Cox suggested a foray into living history as a club activity, which ultimately spawned the Viking Living History Project.

Izabela A. Dahl is an Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in History at the Örebro University
in Sweden and was a Visiting Professor at the Bielefeld University in Germany for the 2021-2022 academic year. Her main research interests concern modern and contemporary European history, with analysis addressing social power structures and social categorizations that pre-condition cultural and social contexts.

Jean-Paul R. Contreras deGuzman (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) is a History Teacher at Windward School, where he co-directs the College Division Seminar Program and mentors the Asian American Pacific Islander student affinity groups. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Asian American Studies and the Race and Indigeneity Cluster at UCLA, where he earned the university-wide Distinguished Teaching Award. His writing appears in Amerasia Journal, California History, Journal of Urban History, Southern California Quarterly, Journal of Asian American Studies, and various anthologies in ethnic, urban, and religious studies.

Jimmy Engren is a Senior Lecturer in History at the Örebro University in Sweden. He is currently head of the Division of the Humanities and the university's representative on the board of Arkivcentrum Örebro län. His research primarily addresses North American and European migration and labor history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has also published on history didactics.


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