Contents of the Current Issue of The History Teacher

Subscribe Annually to The History Teacher

Order an Individual Copy of this Issue

Table of Contents
February 2007 ISSUE (Vol. 40, No. 2)
(See this issue on-line at www.historycooperative.org)

GENERAL

Counterfactual Thought Experiments: A Necessary Teaching Tool
by Richard Ned Lebow

THE CRAFT OF TEACHING

Small Group Scored Discussion: Beyond the Fishbowl
by Jessica Young

Constructing the Syllabus: Devising a Framework for Helping Students
Learn to Think Like Historians
by Todd Estes

PC Games and the Teaching of History
by Andrew McMichael

THE STATE OF THE PROFESSION

Changing Secondary School Teachers’ Views of Teaching American History
by Rachel G. Ragland

The Legacy of the Teaching American History Grants: Statues on Easter Island?
by Russell Olwell

Closing the Distance Between Authentic History Pedagogy and Everyday
Classroom Practice
by Wilson J. Warren

Closing the Gap Between Professors and Teachers: "Uncoverage" as a
Model of Professional Development for History Teachers
by Timothy D. Hall and Renay Scott

Building a Culture of Evidence Through Professional Development
by Stephen Mucher

REVIEWS

Burnstein, Daniel Eli, Next to Godliness: Confronting Dirt and Despair in Progressive Era New York City
by Matt McCook

Burstein, Stanley M., The Reign of Cleopatra
by Frank L. Vatai

Dosal, Paul J., Cuba Libre: A Brief History of Cuba
by Julio Pino

Gerster, Carole, ed., Teaching Ethnic Diversity with Film: Essays and Resources for Educators in History, Social Studies, Literature and Film Studies
by Bruce Allyn Lesh

Irons, Peter, A People’ s History of the Supreme Court
by James C. Duram

McMillan, Priscilla J., The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race
by Robert Cottrell

Nash, Gary, The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
by Carolyn Williams

Neal, Teresa S., Evolution Toward Equality: Equality for Women in the American West
by Jonathan Foster

Trachtenberg, Marc, The Craft of International History: A Guide to Method
by Arlene Lazarowitz

Vecchio, Diane C., Merchants, Midwives, and Laboring Women: Italian Migrants in Urban America
by Frederick M. Binder

Watson, Bruce, Bread and Roses: Mills, Migrants, and the Struggle for the American Dream
by Judith Bentley