Teaching U.S. History

Dialogues Among Social Studies Teachers and Historians

Diana Turk, Rachel Mattson, Terrie Epstein, Robert Cohen

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2010
• eBook ISBN: 9781135184254
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Teaching U.S. History offers an innovative approach to social studies teaching by connecting historians to real-world social studies classrooms and social studies teachers. In an unusual, even unprecedented, dialogue between scholars and practitioners, this book weds historical theory and practice with social studies pedagogy.

Seven chapters are organized around key US History eras and events from the time of slavery through the Civil Rights Movement and are complemented by detailed discussions of a particular methodological approach, including primary source analysis, oral history and more. Interviews with historians open each chapter to bring the reader into important conversations about the most cutting edge issues in U.S. history today and are followed by essays from expert teachers on the rewards and challenges of implementing these topics in the classroom. Each chapter also includes a wealth of practical resources including suggested key documents or artifacts; a lesson plan for middle school and another suitable for high school; and suggested readings and questions for further study.

Teaching U.S. History is a must read for any aspiring or current teacher who wants to think critically about how to teach U.S. history and make historical discussions come alive in the school classrooms where the nation's students learn.

Index

African Americans:

New Deal and 111;

Progressive

Era and 91–2;

see also Civil War;

race;

slavery

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) 110

American Social History Project 5

American Spirit (Kennedy and Bailey) 150

American Youth Congress 112, 113–15, 125, 132–3

American-ness 68, 69, 91, 183–4

anti-imperialism movements 171, 172, 176, 179, 182–3, 184

anti-political bias 39, 40, 45

Arab–Israeli conflict lesson 200

assessing failure 173–4, 179–84

assessment 28, 49–50, 75–9, 99–103, 123, 150–5, 173–4

Bain, Robert B. 198

Baker, Ella 140, 142, 145, 154

Berkin, Carol 193

Berlin, Ira 11–15, 16

Berman, Stacie Brensilver 142–54

Bernstein, Barton 110

Briggs, Laura 5, 169–73, 175–6, 182–3

Brother Outsider (D’Emilio), 142

Brown, John 41, 42

Bureau for Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Land (Freedmen’s Bureau) 12, 30–1

Bush, Laura 170

capitalism 89, 93, 109, 111, 112, 115, 116, 117

cartoons 73–4

China 170

civic engagement:

American-ness and 183–4;

democracy and 124–5, 140, 172, 183–4;

ordinary people and 4, 141–2, 145–6, 151, 153, 154–5, 201;

pedagogical approaches to teaching 21, 91, 122, 123, 183–4;

rethinking civic engagement 21, 91, 122, 123, 183–4;

teaching about slavery and 21, 23, 28;

teaching about the Civil Rights Movement and 141–2, 144–5;

teaching about the Depression 123–5;

teaching about the New Deal 123, 126;

teaching about the...

Table of contents

• Transforming Teaching
• Contents
• Series Editor Introduction
• Acknowledgements
• A Note about this Book
• Introduction
• One Slavery
• Two The Civil War
• Three Immigration
• Four The Progressive Era
• Five The New Deal
• Six The Civil Rights Movement
• Seven U.S. Imperialism
• Concluding Thoughts
• Contributor Biographies
• Index