The History Teacher
Volume 45, No. 2
February 2012
Front Matter | Back Matter
THE CRAFT OF TEACHING
Teaching History with Comic Books: A Case Study of Violence, War, and the Graphic Novel
by Alicia C. Decker and Mauricio Castro
(pp. 169-188)
Cartooning History: Canada's Stories in Graphic Novels
by Alyson E. King
(pp. 189-219)
Toward a Philosophy of Holocaust Education: Teaching Values without Imposing Agendas
by Alexander Karn
(pp. 221-240)
THE STATE OF THE PROFESSION
Divergent Purposes: A Case Study of a History Education Course Co-taught by a Historian and Social Studies Education Expert
by Victoria B. Fantozzi
(pp. 241-259)
Teaching Students How to Research the Past: Historians and Librarians in the
Digital Age
by Dominique Daniel
(pp. 261-282)
NOTES AND COMMMENTS
Pairing Books for Learning: The Union of Information and Fiction
by Allison L. Baer
(pp. 283-296)
REVIEWS
Full Reviews Section
(pp. 297-315)
Bronski, Michael. A Queer History of the United States
by Jennifer Reed
Coetzee, Frans and Marilyn Shevin-Coetzee. The World in Flames: A World War II Sourcebook
by Sue Grayzel
Corey, Steven H. and Lisa Krissoff Boehm, eds. The American Urban Reader: History and Theory
by Julian Chambliss
Currarino, Roseanne. The Labor Question in America: Economic Democracy in the Gilded Age
by David Neumann
Esherick, Joseph W. Ancestral Leaves: A Family Journey through Chinese History
by Robert Entenmann
Green, James N. We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States
by Craig Hendricks
Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü. Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography
by Turan Kayaoglu
Inglis, Fred. A Short History of Celebrity
by Linda Kelly Alkana
Karl, Rebecca E. Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World: A Concise History
by Timothy Cheek
Konig, David Thomas, Paul Finkelman, and Christopher Alan Bracey, eds. The Dred Scott Case: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on Race and Law
by John Henderson
Lukasik, Christopher J. Discerning Characters: The Culture of Appearance in Early America
by James P. Cousins
Mize, Ronald L. and Alicia C. S. Swords. Consuming Mexican Labor: From the Bracero Program to NAFTA
by John A. Britton
Mullett, Michael A. John Calvin
by Gregory Halfond
VanSledright, Bruce A. The Challenge of Rethinking History Education: On Practices, Theories, and Policy
by Robert Shaffer
IN EVERY ISSUE
167 Contributors to The History Teacher
317 Questionnaire for Potential Reviewers
318 Membership/Subscription Information
320 Submission Guidelines for The History Teacher
ADVERTISERS IN THIS ISSUE
220 Association for Asian Studies: Teach About Asia, Learn About Asia
260 Bedford/St. Martin's: A New Interpretation for a New Generation
316 Organization for American History: Become an OAH Member Today
CONTRIBUTORS
Allison L. Baer (Ph.D., Kent State University) is a former middle school teacher and is currently an Associate Professor of Reading at the University or Findlay, where she uses a blend of informational and fiction texts in all of her teaching. Her research interests include content area reading and supporting the needs of those who struggle with reading comprehension.
Mauricio Castro was born in San Jose, Costa Rica. He received his B.A. in History from Vassar College in 2003. He has since received an M.A. in American History from Purdue University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at that same university. His dissertationfocuses on the urban development of Miami in the decades following the arrival of the first Cuban exiles in 1959. His professional interests include political economy, gender, nationalism, and popular culture.
Dominique Daniel holds a doctorate in American Studies from the University of Paris 7 (France) and a Master of Science of Information from the University of Michigan. She is currently Assistant Professor and Instruction Librarian at Oakland University. She has published books and articles about U.S. immigration policy and about the history of libraries and archives. She is actively involved in the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association.
Alicia C. Decker is an Assistant Professor of History and Women's Studies at Purdue University. She received her Ph.D. in Women's Studies from Emory University in 2007. Her research and teaching interests include post-colonial African history; gender and militarization; armed conflict and forced migration; oral history; and global feminisms. She has recently published essays about teaching in Perspectives on History and Narrating War and Peace in Africa, edited by Toyin Falola and Hetty ter Haar.
Victoria B. Fantozzi is an Assistant Professor in the Elementary and Early Childhood Education Department at William Paterson University in New Jersey. Her research interests are focused on teacher education, particularly on how the epistemological viewpoints and individual meaning making of both students and teachers affect teacher education.
Alexander Karn received his Ph.D. in History from the Claremont Graduate University in 2006. He is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Colgate University. He is the co-editor (with Elazar Barkan) of Taking Wrongs Seriously: Apologies and Reconciliation (Stanford University Press, 2006). His current work focuses on Holocaust commissions and the possibilities for historical reconciliation based on negotiated approaches to the past.
Alyson E. King earned her Ph.D. in the History of Education at the University of Toronto. She is a Lecturer in the faculty of Social Science and Humanities at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (Oshawa, Canada). Her research interests include historical graphic novels, children's virtual worlds, and the history of education. She is currently chair of the Ontario Women's History Network.
Special Contributor
Charles Henry Alston (1907-1977) earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in 1929 and his Master of Arts degree from Columbia's Teachers College in 1931. Beyond the cartoons produced for the U.S. Office of War Information during World War II, Alston's artistic creations included numerous paintings, sculptures, and murals.
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