historiography

Explains how to teach a writing-based history course, discussing interpretation and assessment of historic documents, the writing of position and local history research papers, and classroom living history activities.

Applying assumptions and values that encourage the search for historical truth, the authors recommend that scientific models be used for the writing of history.

A collection of writings that examine the Progressives, their agenda, actions, and influence, and the role gender and ethnicity played on the group.

Collection of essays that examine the controversy over the Smithsonian Institution's aborted 1995 exhibit which was to have featured the Enola Gay, the World War II plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, as the focus of an examination of the destructive use of atomic energy.

A biography of the ancient Greek historian and general Thucydides, discussing his childhood, life in Sparta, and account of the Peloponnesian War.

Discusses various periods or themes in American history, suggests related creative writing exercises, and provides examples.