Kategoria BISAC: History >> Study & Teaching

This textbook is an anthology of significant theoretical discussions of biography as a genre and as a literary-historical practice. Covering the 18th to the 21st centuries, the reader includes programmatic texts by authors such as Herder, Carlyle, Dilthey, Proust, Freud, Kracauer, Woolf and Bourdieu. Each text is accompanied by a commentary placing its contribution in critical context.

Ideal for use in undergraduate seminars, this reader may also be of interest for academic researchers in the areas of literary studies and history aiming to get an overview of historical questions in...

Teaching Difficult History through Film explores the potential of film to engage young people in controversial or contested histories and how they are represented, ranging from gender and sexuality, to colonialism and slavery. Adding to the education literature of how to teach and learn difficult histories, contributors apply their theoretical and pedagogical expertise and experiences to a variety of historical topics to show the ways that film can create opportunities for challenging conversations in the classroom and attempts to recognize the perspectives of historically...

Teaching Difficult History through Film explores the potential of film to engage young people in controversial or contested histories and how they are represented, ranging from gender and sexuality, to colonialism and slavery. Adding to the education literature of how to teach and learn difficult histories, contributors apply their theoretical and pedagogical expertise and experiences to a variety of historical topics to show the ways that film can create opportunities for challenging conversations in the classroom and attempts to recognize the perspectives of historically...

The book contains about seventy letters written by Flora Ewing during her stay in Switzerland (between September 1913 and October 1914). She was living in Geneva in Pensionnat Mange, studying, travelling and making new friends. The original letters have been kept in the family for one hundred years until carefully transferred to an electronic format. There are about hundred photos in the book which show some people and places mentioned in the letters. This edition keeps the original orthography.

Designed for the classroom, Thinking About History is organized around big questions: Whose history do we write, and how does that affect what stories get told and how they are told? How did we come to view the nation as the inevitable context for history, and what happens when we move...

A collection of short fiction, historical pieces, poetry, and song written by members of the Military Writers Society of America after a writers' retreat at the Gettysburg Battlefield Bed and Breakfast in May, 2016.

Includes accomplished authors: Carolyn Schriber, Joe Epley, Jack Woodville London, Bob Doerr, Richard Davidson, Pat McGrath Avery, Mindy Phillips Lawrence, Florence March, Christopher Avery, Dwight Jon Zimmerman, and Joyce Faulkner. Also includes the photography of Pat McGrath Avery and Joyce Faulkner.