For History Teachers
ARTICLES ON HISTORY TEACHING:
"On Teaching American History," by C. Vann Woodward, in The American Scholar, Winter, 1998
"On Teaching American History," by Walter McDougall, in The American Scholar, Winter, 1998
"On Teaching American History," by John Patrick Diggins, in The American Scholar, Winter, 1998
"Present-Tense Culture," by Mark Steyn, in The New Criterion, April, 1997
"Goodbye to All That: Why Americans Are Not Taught History," by Christopher Hitchens, in Harpers, November, 1998
"It's More Than Teaching History," by Doris L. Hawkins, in The Social Studies, May/June, 1997
"Paul Johnson Explains America," by Paul Johnson, in The American Enterprise, May/June, 1998
"The Organization of American Historians and the Teaching of History," by Gary W. Reichard, in The History Teacher, February, 1998
"The National History Standards," by John Patrick Diggins, in The American Scholar, Autumn, 1996
"The Problem of Democratic
History," by Keith Windschuttle, in The New Criterion, June, 1998
OTHER WEB SOURCES FOR HISTORY TEACHING:
National Museum of American History
The Concord Review, "exemplary essays by high school students of history...."
The National Archives' Digital Classroom
A gateway to excellent links for both AP World and AP United States history
National Council for History Education, an excellent organization dedicated to improving the teaching of history in schools
National Center for History in the Schools, based at UCLA, a great source for lesson plans
A history teacher's web page: a good model
An amazingly complete syllabus for a course on America in the '50's, created by a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with a remarkable number of links and other sources. A model to shoot at.
Home page for The History Channel
The American Historical Association
The Organization of American Historians
The National Council on the Social Studies