Description of a course built around the question, What is History?'' The methodological principles of selection, causation, generalization, and interpretation are applied. (JB)

A study of history can be approached through four basic steps: (1) collecting and questioning evidence; (2) defining terms by reference to authority and through use of logic; (3) recognizing and questioning other interpretations and building and applying one's own interpretation, and (4) recognizing and clarifying values, then applying values to…

The author discusses the historians penchant to study the influence of motion pictures in American cultural life using only aesthetic judgment rather than examining films objectively, using conceptions of value of evidence and dealing with problems of causation. (SM)

The purpose of the article is to introduce and recommend to United States educators a number of films produced during the last two decades which realistically portray social problems of Latin America. These films provide historians with valuable documents from which to study Latin American society. (SM)

Previous research dealing with the question of children's understanding of time (in particular their frame of mind which is in touch with the past) is reviewed. Findings from the various studies show that children do not develop a sense of historical time in a predictable way; therefore, the way history is taught to them needs to be reexamined.…

The obvious profits to be reaped by using film in the classroom are outlined. (JB)

In an interview with the archivist of the Motion Picture Unit in the National Archives, holdings of various libraries are discussed, as are potential uses historians may find for film. (JB)

It is argued that physical frailties and inability to cope with stresses surrounding them have not been the only causes of madness'' in leaders in history -- some psychological studies could reveal that incompetencies would have occured in spite of their surroundings. (JB)

Students who ordinarily would not register for a history course were attracted to one offered on The World Since 1960.'' A variety of lecturers, of media approaches, and of evaluation methods provided the needed motivation. (JB)

An analysis of various points of controversy that has surrounded A.J.P. Taylor's Origins of the Second World War (London, 1961), an interpretation of the history of the inter-war years which has assumed such significance as to deserve designation as the Taylor Thesis.'' (JB)

The purpose of this essay is to study the scholarly works of Bemis and Bailey, to provide a commentary on the works and on certain implications inherent in their work. (Author)

Through the comparative approach to teaching Western Civilization, the student is confronted by a discussion of some aspect of several civilizations or countries within the same time period instead of a civilization-by-civilization or a country-by-country analysis. (Author/JB)

An essay on an early counter spy provides historical views of Russia and source material. (JB)

An understanding of the meaning of words used by people through the centuries reveals much about the history of the time examined. The study of language provides archival resources to man's development. (JB)