Everything Old Is New Again: Social History, The National History Standards and the Crisis in the Teaching of High School American History

1995 ◽  
Vol 29 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. 59-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. W. Bienstock
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social History ◽  
American History ◽  
National History ◽  
National History Standards

Improving History Education for All Students: The Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework

1998 ◽  
Vol 180 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Sheldon M. Stern
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
American History ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
History Education ◽  
Education For All ◽  
National History ◽  
Curriculum Framework ◽  
Massachusetts History ◽  
National History Standards

The commitment of Massachusetts to strive for the highest standards in history education is now inextricably linked to the implementation of the History and Social Science Curriculum Framework completed in 1997. The author writes that teachers and other educators, parents and students, should consider carefully the concepts and principles contained in the Framework and, particularly in American history, try to understand how the Massachusetts Framework differs in substance and approach from the controversial national history standards first proposed in 1994.

Japan's History Textbooks Debate: National Identity in Narratives of Victimhood and Victimization

Asian Survey ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 683-704 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Bukh
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Junior High School ◽  
Junior High ◽  
History Textbooks ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Japanese People ◽  
National History ◽  
School History

This article examines the narratives of wartime victimhood and victimization in Japan's junior high school history textbooks in the early 1980s and in contemporary times from the perspective of national identity. Unlike most existing scholarship, this article argues that the narrative regarding the wartime suffering of the Japanese people can be seen as inducing a critical perspective on imperial wars and their disastrous impact on ordinary people. It also argues that contemporary narratives contest the notion of a monolithic Japanese identity and challenge Japan's monopoly over writing its own national history.

scholarly journals A Quem Pertence o Passado Norte-americano? A controvérsia sobre os National History Standards nos Estados Unidos (1994-1996)

Anos 90 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 22 (41) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Lima De Avila
Keyword(s):  
National History ◽  
National History Standards

O presente artigo trata da controvérsia pública sobre os National History Standards, um conjunto de propostas que visavam auxiliar na reforma do Ensino Básico nos Estados Unidos, entre 1994 e 1996. No texto, se enfatiza as respostas dos setores conservadores às diretrizes propostas, especialmente sua rejeição àquilo que consideravam um “seqüestro da história” pelas hostes “multiculturais”, “politicamente corretas” e “anti-ocidentais”. Com isso, argumenta-se que tais setores buscavam a construção de um passado estável e sem conflitos justamente como contraponto a um presente que se apresentava cada vez mais instável e conflituoso, assegurando, assim, uma ideia bastante limitada sobre quem eram os personagens da história norte-americana e o que ela deveria significar.

scholarly journals Retro quality and historical consciousness in contemporary European television

2017 ◽  
pp. 78-96
Author(s):  
Louis Bayman
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Historical Consciousness ◽  
National History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Superior Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self

This article investigates the trend represented by the recent TV series This Is England 86 (2010), Deutschland 83 (2015) and 1992 (2015). It analyses retro in the series as enabling an exhilarating experience of the music, fashions and lifestyles of the past while claiming to offer a serious social history. The article thus takes issue with theories of retro that view it as ahistorical (for example Guffey), to demonstrate how retro in these series enables a particular dramatic conception of the dynamics of national history, whether in post-imperial decline (This Is England), a westalgie for the grip of geopolitical conflict (Deutschland 83) or the cyclical progression of trasformismo (1992). The article discusses the series’ common visions of the past as characterised by a pleasing youthful naivety, opposed to an implied present of cynical superior knowledge. I argue that these series embody retro’s distinct ability to combine irony and fetishism in its recreation of the past, as befits an age in which historical consciousness is increasingly referred to the intimate sphere of the individual self and its uncertain relation to posterity.

scholarly journals Dependency, History, and Scholarship: An Interview with Professor Stanley J. Stein

2010 ◽  
Vol 66 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392
Author(s):  
Vincent Peloso
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social History ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American History ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
National Endowment ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact

Stanley J. Stein, Walter Samuel Carpenter III Professor of Spanish Civilization and Culture and Professor of History, Emeritus, at Princeton University, is a lifelong Latin Americanist. Together with his late wife Barbara, herself an accomplished bibliographer and historian of the region, Professor Stein wrote several books and articles that put their stamp on methods of writing the social history of modern Latin America, specifically on the impact of colonialism and industrialism in Mexico and Brazil in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is fair to say that no one who studied Latin American history over the last 35 years would have failed to engage the slim, elegantly written synthesis, The Colonial Heritage of Latin America: Essays on Economic Dependence in Perspective (1970). Recipients of grants and fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities, singly or together, the Steins were honored for their path-breaking studies with the CLAH Robertson and Bolton prizes, the Conference on Latin American History Distinguished Service Award (1991), and the American Historical Association Award for Scholarly Distinction (1996).

Social History, the Census, and the Blues: A High School Application

1993 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 107-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joann Cutler Sweeney ◽  
Frances E. Monteverde ◽  
Alan W. Garrett
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social History

Crime, Truth, and Justice in Modern Mexico: Notes for a National History

2016 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 491-512
Author(s):  
Pablo Piccato
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American History ◽  
Social Research ◽  
National History ◽  
Annual Lecture ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
New School

With this lecture by Pablo Piccato, The Americas continues its collaboration with the New School for Social Research to publish its annual Lecture in Latin American History. The series features lectures by senior historians in the field of Latin American history across an array of topics. This is the fifth in the series.

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