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Volume 39 • Number 1

November 2005


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

9 Welcome to Our New Editor: Jane Dabel
  by Nancy Quam-Wickham, The History Teacher

GENERAL

011 Why Students Think There Are Two Kinds of American History
  by Tony Waters

THE CRAFT OF TEACHING

23 What Happened and Why? Helping Students Read and Write Like Historians
  by Patrick Rael

THE STATE OF THE PROFESSION

33 James Conant's Uncompleted Revolution: Methods Faculty and the Historical Profession, 1978-2004
  by Russell B. Olwell

HISTORIOGRAPHY

43 The Spanish Borderlands, Historiography Redux
  by David J. Weber

SPECIAL FEATURE:
NATIONAL HISTORY DAY 2005 PRIZE ESSAYS

57 Introduction
  by Nancy Quam-Wickham, The History Teacher

59 Divided by a Common Language: The Babel Proclamation and its Influence in Iowa History
  by Stephen J. Frese, Senior Division

89 The Great Communicator: How FDR's Radio Speeches Shaped American History
  by Lumeng (Jenny) Yu, Junior Division

NOTES AND COMMENTS

107 'To Feel Fiercely': Tradition, Heritage, and Nostalgia in English History
  by Jesse Freedman

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

10 Visit Us at the American Historical Association Meeting in January: Please Join Us for a Special Reception and at Our Exhibit Booths
 

116 Eugene Asher Award for Distinguished Teaching: Nominations Now Being Accepted
  Sponsored by Society for History Education/American Historical Association

REVIEWS

117 Aronson, Sir Walter Raleigh and the Quest for El Doradoand John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise
  by Bruce Allyn Lesh

  Dillon, Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece
  by Stanley M. Burstein

  Fritz, Endkampf: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich
  by Paul B. Hatley

  Gevinson, Schrum, and Rosenzweig, History Matters: A Student Guide to U.S. History Online
  by Barbara Kantz

  Godbeer, Escaping Salem: The Other Witch Hunt of 1692
  by Phillip Luke Sinitiere

  Higgs, Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society
  by Caryn E. Neumann

  Knepper, ed., Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt Through Depression and War
  by Margaret Rung

  Kupfer, We Felt the Flames: Hitler's Blitzkrieg, America's Story
  by Jeffery C. Livingston

  Landsberg, Prosthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrancein the Age of Mass Culture
  by Lee Bernstein

  Lane, Genghis Khan and Mongol Rule
  by D. W. Y. Kwok

  Ling and Monteith, eds., Gender and the Civil Rights Movement
  by John Drabble

  Mead, How the West Was Won: Woman Suffrage in the Western United States, 1868–1914
  by Melanie Gustafson

  Mihalkanin, ed., American Statesmen: Secretaries of State from John Jay to Colin Powell
  by H. B. Ussach

  O'Connor, The History of the Baltic States
  by Andrejs Plakans

  Rubio and Purcell, eds., Mexico Under Fox
  by William Diaz-Brown

  Sturgis, Presidents from Hayes through McKinley, 1877–1901: Debating theIssues in Pro and Con Primary Documents
  by Michael E. Long

  Townsend, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
  by Judith Ridner

  Wittner, The Struggle Against the Bomb: Toward Nuclear Abolition, Vol. III
  by Charles F. Howlett

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7 Contributors to this issue

Journal Staff


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