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Sloppy argument colors informative post-mortem
It is a truism that history is written by the victors. However, in Whose History? The Struggle for National Standards in American Classrooms, Linda Symcox gives us history written by the losers. As a principal participant in the National Standards for History project, Symcox is among the academics and educational professionals who lost the battle to define a consensus American history. Her book provides a post-mortem on how conservative activists engineered a total rejection of the Standards.Understandably biter about the hatchet job done on the product she and others worked hard to produce, Symcox seeks to understand the genesis of the conservative backlash and place the battle she lost in the context of the larger, longer culture wars waged over social studies curriculum. Though she attempts to take the tone of an academic researching a series of events, her bias often reveals her to be still engaged in the argument, not merely studying it.Read more

Subjects:  1. Administration - General    2. Curriculum planning    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Educational Policy & Reform    6. History    7. Philosophy & Social Aspects    8. Standards    9. Study and teaching    10. Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science    11. United States    12. Central government policies    13. Philosophy of education    14. Teaching of a specific subject    15. USA   

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More introspection into common items
Keeping a diary is a commendable and worthwhile pursuit if its content forms a cohesive, relevant history that future generations can appreciate. However, if one treats "daily jottings as cheap therapy," the record created prevails only for the gain of one person, not progeny (48). Readers of Kyvig and Marty's Nearby History will never look at journal writing the same, and more importantly, they will not see ordinary things within close proximity as ordinary anymore.
Nearby History (2nd edition)
I found that "Nearby History" (2nd edition) was actually quite an informative book.I was looking for something in particular about my family, and I was at a complete loss as to how to find it.I haven't found it yet, but thanks to this book, I have made progress.I thought it'd be just for historians. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Historiography    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History, Local    5. History: American    6. Study & Teaching    7. United States    8. United States - State & Local - General    9. Cultural studies    10. Local history    11. USA   

Subjects:  1. Africa    2. Africa - General    3. Essays    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Methodology    8. Sources    9. Study & Teaching    10. African history    11. Historiography    12. Literary Collections / African    13. Literature: History & Criticism   

Subjects:  1. SAT & PSAT    2. Study & Teaching    3. Study Aids    4. Study Guides    5. Test Prep    6. United States - General    7. STUDY AIDS - Advanced Placement    8. Study Aids / SAT & PSAT (Scholastic Assessment Test & Preliminary Scholastic Assessment Test)   

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Very Enjoyable
Excellent book for worlds fair fans.Lots of info and pictures, and does a good job of placing the fair in the context of its time.Note that the Queens Museum Gift Shop hs this book for sale for less than 68.00

One Book I Couldn't Part With
This is one book I couldn't part with! I frequently used to check the only copy of this book around for miles from our library until the ecstatic day I found a copy I could actually buy and own. It was at the Queen's Museum of Art in New York on the actual site of both World's Fairs (1939 & 1964). This book is the absolute penultimate reference for that wonderful phenomenon that was the 1964 New York World's Fair. The articles and photos contained within relate the experience of the fair so effectively that I felt like it still exists. What a sensational book. Thank you for it! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. (1939-1940)    2. (1964-1965)    3. Art    4. Exhibition Catalogs    5. History    6. History - General History    7. New York World's Fair    8. New York World's Fair (1939-1940)    9. New York World's Fair (1964-19    10. New York World's Fair (1964-1965)    11. Study & Teaching    12. Non-Classifiable   

Subjects:  1. Art    2. General    3. Historiography    4. History - General History    5. Memory (Philosophy)    6. Museum exhibits    7. Museums    8. Philosophy    9. Study & Teaching    10. Museums & Museology    11. Social & cultural anthropology   

Subjects:  1. Curricula    2. Education    3. History    4. History - General History    5. Study & Teaching    6. Study and teaching (Middle sch    7. Study and teaching (Middle school)    8. Study and teaching (Secondary)    9. United States   

Subjects:  1. 20e siáecle    2. Canada    3. Canada - General    4. Enseignement supâerier    5. Histoire    6. Historiography    7. History    8. History - General History    9. History: World    10. Study & Teaching    11. Study and teaching (Higher)    12. History / Canada   

Subjects:  1. Achievement tests    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History: World    5. States    6. Study & Teaching    7. Study and teaching    8. Testing & Measurement    9. United States    10. United States - General    11. Education-History    12. Education-Testing & Measurement    13. Examinations & assessment    14. History / Study & Teaching    15. Teaching of a specific subject    16. USA   

Subjects:  1. Administration - General    2. Asia - China    3. China    4. Community schools    5. Education / Teaching    6. Education and state    7. History    8. History: World    9. Study & Teaching    10. Schools    11. Social history    12. c 1000 CE to c 1500    13. c 1500 to c 1600    14. c 1600 to c 1700   

Subjects:  1. Europe - Ireland    2. History    3. History - General History    4. History: World    5. Ireland - History    6. Study & Teaching    7. History / Ireland   

Subjects:  1. Cartography    2. Historical Atlases    3. Historical geography    4. Historiography    5. History    6. History - General History    7. History: World    8. Maps    9. Methodology    10. World - General    11. History / Historiography    12. History of science    13. Maps, charts & atlases   

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Evaluation    3. History    4. History - General History    5. Study & Teaching    6. Study and teaching (Secondary)    7. Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science    8. Testing & Measurement    9. United States    10. Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Social Science    11. Secondary schools    12. Teaching of a specific subject    13. USA   

Subjects:  1. Cataloging    2. Libraries    3. Oral history    4. Special collections   

Subjects:  1. Toynbee, Arnold Joseph   

Subjects:  1. Education / Teaching    2. History    3. History: World    4. Study & Teaching    5. Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science    6. World - General    7. Eighth century    8. Fifth century    9. Fourth century    10. History, Ancient    11. Middle ages    12. Ninth century    13. Seventh century    14. Sixth century    15. Tenth century    16. World history   

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Essential
A trenchant explanation of historical reasoning.The books is particularly useful for undergraduates, or neophytes in the world of historical research. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Historiography    2. History    3. History - General History    4. Study and teaching   

Subjects:  1. History    2. History - General History    3. History: World    4. Renaissance    5. Study & Teaching    6. History / Renaissance    7. History, World | Medieval    8. Modern period, c 1500 onwards    9. World history    10. Writing & editing guides   

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Mr Lukacs wears his humanity on his sleeve
I agree with the two reviewers who give the book five stars.I would give it six stars if I could! In almost every sentence one can feel Mr Lukacs' humanity. Strangely, in my youth, I spent a summer in Norristown,a northwest suburb of Philadelphia, close to where Mr Lukacs lives. I too was struck by the verdant beauty of the countryside of southeast Pennsylvania. It is a mystery that its beauty is not more widely known.

An Original Life
Lukacs gets to you slowly in this marvelous autobiography. It's partly the way he structures his life, and partly his remarkable prose.Structurally, he moves chronologically through his life, but also moves thematically at the same time, coming back around to the same preoccupations again and again but from different angles, foreshadowing what's to come, commenting on his earlier follies and triumphs.And so, slowly, he gnaws away at your preconceptions about history, especially U.S. history.Particularly entertaining are his witty criticisms of U.S. academia, his stinging assessments of Kissinger and Reagan from his perspective as a "reactionary" historian. Direct and simple, never-simplistic, he paints his experience as an exile coming to the U.S. after WWII truthfully, with wit, self-deprecation, and remarkable self-knowledge.There are passages in this book which are remarkably moving.His description of his first wife's illness and death, the slow dissolution of his connections to Hungary, the mother and family he left behind, are restrained, but all the more emotionally compelling because of that restraint.An original thinker, Lukacs never accepts anything at face value.After reading him, your view of 20th Century U.S. and world history will be changed.You may even be tempted to adopt his "reactionary" values.

Thoughtful and Inisghtful View of Life
This is no doubt one the most heartfelt and honest memoirs I have ever read.John Lucaks, teacher and historian, tells us early on of how he escaped from Hungary shortly after World War II.He lived under the Nazi's and then the Communists, despised both, and then made a life for himself in America.Read more

Subjects:  1. 1924-    2. 20th century    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. General    7. Historians    8. Historiography    9. History, Modern    10. Hungarian Americans    11. Lukacs, John,    12. United States    13. Lukacs, John   

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A Great US History Text that Reads Like a Novel!
Doctors McMillen and Bolton do a wonderful job of keeping any college student alert in their 8th revision of this wonderful text.Dr. McMillen thoroughly describes major events in post-bellum United States history in an easy-to-understand style.Read more

Subjects:  1. History - U.S.    2. History: American    3. United States - General    4. American history    5. History / Study & Teaching    6. USA