History Books

New and Published Books

1. Teaching History with Museums

   Strategies for K-12 Social Studies

   By Alan Marcus, Jeremy Stoddard, Walter W. Woodward

   Teaching History with Museums provides an introduction and overview of the rich pedagogical power of museums. In this comprehensive textbook, the authors show how museums offer a sophisticated understanding of the past and develop habits of mind in ways that are not easily duplicated in the...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
2. Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in the Secondary School… Humanities

   History, Geography, Religious Studies and Citizenship

   By Richard Harris, Simon Harrison, Richard McFahn

   Series: Cross-Curricular Teaching and Learning in...

   What is the role of the humanities in the modern school? Should geography, history, RE and Citizenship teachers remain faithful to long-standing subject cultures and pedagogies? Or is there another way to consider how the curriculum, and the notion of individual subjects and teachers’ pedagogy,...

   Published September 27th 2011 by Routledge
3. Making Citizens

   Transforming Civic Learning for Diverse Social Studies Classrooms

   By Beth C. Rubin

   Can social studies classrooms be effective "makers" of citizens if much of what occurs in these classrooms does little to prepare young people to participate in the civic and political life of our democracy? Making Citizens illustrates how social studies can recapture its civic purpose through an...

   Published June 27th 2011 by Routledge
4. Teaching Psychology 14-19

   Issues and Techniques

   By Matt Jarvis

   Teaching Psychology 14-19 - first published as Teaching Post-16 Psychology - is a core text for all training psychology teachers, as well as experienced teachers engaged in further study and professional development. Taking a reflective approach, Matt Jarvis explores key issues and debates against...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
5. Teaching Global History

   A Social Studies Approach

   By Alan J. Singer

   Teaching Global History challenges prospective and beginning social studies teachers to formulate their own views about what is important to know in global history and why. It explains how to organize the curriculum around broad social studies concepts and themes and student questions about...

   Published May 19th 2011 by Routledge
6. Gaming the Past

   Using Video Games to Teach Secondary History

   By Jeremiah McCall

   Despite the growing number of books designed to radically reconsider the educational value of video games as powerful learning tools, there are very few practical guidelines conveniently available for prospective history and social studies teachers who actually want to use these teaching and...

   Published May 15th 2011 by Routledge
7. Debates in History Teaching

   Edited by Ian Davies

   Series: The Debates in Subject Teaching Series

   What are the key debates in history teaching today? Debates in History Teaching explores the major issues all history teachers encounter in their daily professional lives. It encourages critical reflection and aims to stimulate both novice and experienced teachers to think more deeply about their...

   Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
8. Teaching U.S. History as Mystery

   2nd Edition

   By David Gerwin, Jack Zevin

   Presenting U.S. history as contested interpretations of compelling problems, this text offers a clear set of principles and strategies, together with case studies and "Mystery Packets" of documentary materials from key periods in American history, that teachers can use with their students to...

   Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
9. Teaching World History as Mystery

   By Jack Zevin, David Gerwin

   Offering a philosophy, methodology, and examples for history instruction that are active, imaginative, and provocative, this text presents a fully developed pedagogy based on problem-solving methods that promote reasoning and judgment and restore a sense of imagination and participation to...

   Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
10. World History: The Basics

    By Peter N. Stearns

    Series: The Basics

    World History has rapidly grown to become one of the most popular and talked about approaches to the study of history. World History: The Basics introduces this fast-growing field and addresses key questions such as: What is world history? How do we study a subject with such a broad geographic...

    Published November 9th 2010 by Routledge