The History Teacher
Volume 45, No. 3
May 2012
Front Matter | Back Matter
GENERAL
The Evolution of The History Teacher and the Reform of History Education
by William Weber
(pp. 329-357)
THE STATE OF THE PROFESSION
Forging New Partnerships: Collaboration between University Professors and Classroom Teachers to Improve History Teaching, 1983-2011
by Linda Symcox
(pp. 359-382)
Training Teachers to think Historically: Applying Recent Research to Professional Development
by David Neumann
(pp. 383-403)
THE CRAFT OF TEACHING
Avoiding the Complex History, Simple Answer Syndrome: A Lesson Plan for Providing Depth and Analysis in the High School History Classroom
by David H. Lindquist
(pp. 405-420)
NOTES AND COMMMENTS
Of Faith and Fiction: Teaching W. E. B. Du Bois and Religion
by Phillip Luke Sinitiere
(pp. 421-436)
Using "Master Narratives" to Teach History: The Case of the Civil Rights Movement
by Jennifer Frost
(pp. 437-446)
"So That's What the Whiskey Rebellion Was!": Teaching Early U.S. History With GIS
by Jeffrey W. Snyder and Thomas C. Hammond
(pp. 447-455)
REVIEWS
Full Reviews Section
(pp. 457-475)
Berman, Morris. Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline
by Robert C. Cottrell
Bowen, Michael. The Roots of Modern Conservatism: Dewey, Taft and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party
by Jeff Bloodworth
Brundage, W. Fitzhugh, ed. Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of American Popular Culture, 1890-1930
by Roger House
Bruns, Roger. Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers Movement
by Marjorie Hunter
Cazorla Sánchez, Antonio. Fear and Progress: Ordinary Lives in Franco's Spain, 1939-1975
by Jennifer L. Foray
Clayton, Lawrence A. Bartolomé de las Casas and the Conquest of the Americas
by Jose Mendez
Gladstone, Brooke. The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media
by Linda Kelly Alkana
Hanioğlu, M. Şükrü. A Brief History of the Late Ottoman Empire
by Jacob L. Hamric
Haq, Gary and Alistair Paul. Environmentalism Since 1945
by David M. Chamberlain
Humphrey, Carol Sue, ed. Voices of Revolutionary America: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life
by David Neumann
Jorae, Wendy Rouse. The Children of Chinatown: Growing Up Chinese American in San Francisco, 1850-1920
by Eileen H. Tamura
Lookingbill, Brad D., ed. American Military History: A Documentary Reader
by Edward F. Finch
McCall, Jeremiah. Gaming the Past: Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History
by Katy Swalwell
Rubenstein, Jay. Armies of Heaven: The First Crusade and the Quest for the Apocalypse
by Gregory S. Beirich
Wallace, David. Capital of the World: A Portrait of New York City in the Roaring Twenties
by Jamie J. Wilson
IN EVERY ISSUE
327 Contributors to The History Teacher
477 Questionnaire for Potential Reviewers
478 Membership/Subscription Information
480 Submission Guidelines for The History Teacher
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358 Association for Asian Studies: Teach About Asia, Learn About Asia
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CONTRIBUTORS
Jennifer Frost received her Ph.D. in United States Women's History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently is Associate Professor of History at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is the author of "An Interracial Movement of the Poor": Community Organizing and the New Left in the 1960s (New York: New York University Press, 2001) and Hedda Hopper's Hollywood: Celebrity Gossip and American Conservatism (New York: New York University Press, 2011). Currently, she is researching the production and reception of U.S. "message movies" of the 1950s and 1960s, and teaches courses on history and film, African-American freedom struggles, and "the sixties."
David H. Lindquist, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the undergraduate Secondary Education program at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is also a Museum Teacher Fellow and Regional Museum Educator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He has been named a Distinguished Teacher by the White House Commission on Presidential Scholars.
David Neumann is Site Director of The History Project at California State University, Long Beach and California State University, Dominguez Hills, an organization that provides professional development to K-12 teachers through partnerships with university faculty. He is also a member of the History Department at California State University, Long Beach, where he teaches history courses for undergraduates and history education courses for pre-service teachers.
Phillip Luke Sinitiere is Associate Professor of History at the College of Biblical Studies, a multi-ethnic school located in Houston's culturally rich Mahatma Gandhi district. He is co-author of Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace (New York: New York University Press, 2009). He is completing a book on Joel Osteen and American religion as well as a co-edited collection of essays on The Crisis magazine and a study of W. E. B. Du Bois and American religious culture.
Jeffrey W. Snyder is a secondary social studies teacher and holds both a B.A. and M.Ed. from Lehigh University. Thomas C. Hammond is an Assistant Professor in Lehigh's Teaching, Learning, and Technology program. His research focuses on technology-mediated social studies instruction.
Linda Symcox (Ph.D., UCLA, 1999) is a Professor and Assistant Director of the Educational Leadership Doctoral Program at California State University, Long Beach, a consultant for Teaching American History grants, and a curriculum designer for the Huntington Library. Before that, she was Assistant Director of the National History Standards Project at UCLA (1989-1996). Symcox is author of Whose History? The Struggle for National Standards in American Classrooms (New York: Teachers College Press, 2002); co-editor of Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education: Transformative Standards (New York: Routledge, 2009), and co-editor of National History Standards: The Problem of the Canon and the Future of Teaching History (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2009).
William Weber was educated at Harvard College and the University of Chicago, and taught modern European history at California State University, Long Beach from 1968 to 2007. He supervised student teachers, participated in the California History-Social Science Project, and was Vice-President of the American Historical Association for the Teaching Division, 2001-2004. His publications include Music and the Middle Class (London, U.K.: Holmes & Meier, 1975), Rise of Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1992), and Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
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