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"http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/ht/42.2/fallace.html From The History Teacher Vol. 42, Issue 2. Viewed February 1, 2010 2:50 EST Presented online in association with the History Cooperative. http://www.historycooperative.org Historiography and Teacher Education: Reflections on an Experimental Course Thomas D. Fallace University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia IN RECENT YEARS, professional historians have encouraged policy makers to increase content requirements in history in hopes of improving the overall teaching of history in American schools. Support for such proposals has come from many sources. The origins of this movement can be traced to the 1983 National Commission on Excellence in Education's Nation at Risk report, which declared that the ignorance of American youth was at a crisis level. E. D. Hirsch reiterated this concern in his best-selling Cultural Literacy, in which he also decried the lack of content knowledge of American students. Further studies, such as Diane Ravitch and Chester Finn's What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? and the Bradley Commission's Historical Literacy, argued that students were particularly deficient in historical knowledge. As a result, in the 1990s, many historians and policy makers endorsed a strengthening of history teacher requirements and the addition of expanded required historical content in the curriculum.1 1 In the 1980s and 1990s, new advances in cognitive and learning theory also supported increased disciplinary knowledge for teachers. In 1987, Lee Shulman's influential article, "Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of a New Reform," introduced the concept of pedagogical content knowledge-"a special amalgam of content and pedagogy that is uniquely the province of teachers, their own special form of professional understanding."2 Shulman argued that effective history teachers draw upon techniques and understandings unique to the discipline, not upon a generic set of instructional tools t

Focus on Films is an archive of British portrayal of events Domesday, Tudors, Stuarts Early 20th Century Actuality films, Women's suffrage, Great War, Ireland, British Empire and Commonwealth, Inter-war Years, World War Two Post-war: Britain since 1945, British Empire and Commonwealth, Cold War

World War I: Primary Documents & Resources Path to War The War Resistance to War

Holy War Japan's War In Colour WWII and Japanese Empire 1937-1945 Widespread famine, political extremism 1:36:35

Fog of War Teacher Guide Links and Book Resources

WWI Rise of Hitler League of Nations WWII Stalin Spanish Civil War Mao Cold War Vietnam War Castro Mussolini Historical Interpretations

"First world war: an imperial bloodbath that's a warning, not a noble cause Tory claims that 1914 was a fight for freedom are absurd - but then history wars are about the future as much as the past"

Kaiser: Russo-Turkish War 1877-78 Prof Richard J Evans lecture how Russia played a central part in the history of war and peace in 19th century Europe Origins, course and impact of six wars--international conflicts, military aspects, ideological influences and the affect on the increase of social and cultural changes

The Great War 1914-1918 Video Series, War Index, Glossary, Educational Resources, Timeline, Maps and Battles, Historians

"The Chinese Civil War (1946 - 49)"

The First World War Explains Modern Conflict #historyteacher: http://t.co/FF1QpGMt

"Look back with angst A century on, there are uncomfortable parallels with the era that led to the outbreak of the first world war"

Cold War info.

IB History 20th Century Russia, WWI, Cold War, Vietnam Bismarck, European Union, Spanish Civil War, Hitler, Stalin

Just War Theory

Just War

Origins WWI First World War Treaty of Versailles League of Nations Road to WWII Cold War Vietnam Germany 1918-1939 USA 1917-1941