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  • Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

      Teaching History article
    How often do our students long for black and white rather than the shades of grey that history generally presents us with? Understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict is all about understanding diversity and complexity in all their shades of grey. Alison Stephen, teaching in an immensely diverse school herself, is determined...
    Why can't they just live together happily, Miss?' Unravelling the complexities of the Arab-Israeli conflict at GCSE

  • Hitting the right note: how useful is the music of African-Americans to historians?

      Teaching History article
    Here is a wonderful reminder of the richness of materials available to history teachers. With ever greater emphasis being placed on different learning styles, it is a good moment to remind ourselves that we can cater for virtually all of them in our classrooms. This includes a preference for learning...
    Hitting the right note: how useful is the music of African-Americans to historians?

  • Exploring and Teaching the Korean War

      A secondary education publication of the Historical Association in partnership with the Korean War Legacy Foundation and World History Digital Education
    The Korean War has been called ‘The Forgotten War’. Yet it was profoundly significant to the development of the Cold War. It had a cataclysmic impact on both North and South Korea which continues to affect both nations’ development to this day. And it continues to influence relationships between the...
    Exploring and Teaching the Korean War

  • Nutshell

      Article
    This edition of 'Nutshell' examines the philosophical concept of the End of History.
    Nutshell

  • Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

      Teaching History feature
    Caroline Godsell describes the reactions and concerns of two Year 9 classes after the 9/11 attack.
    Triumphs Show 105: Year 9s respond directly to 9/11

  • Cunning Plan 111: Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing

      Teaching History feature
    This edition of 'Cunning Plan' is a Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing. There is also a supplementary download commenting on the C.V. Wedgwood text used.
    Cunning Plan 111: Year 8 lesson on C.V. Wedgwood's writing

  • The American Diplomatic Tradition

      Classic Pamphlet
    Indisputably, the United States of America has been and continues to be the leading power of the twentieth century. No country or people, however large or small, has been immune from American influence. A succession of American presidents have become international celebrities whose personal strengths and weaknesses are discussed and disssected...
    The American Diplomatic Tradition

  • Between the Revolutions: Russia 1905 to 1917

      Classic Pamphlet
    "The key question is this - is the peaceful renovation of the country possible? Or is it possible only by internal revolution?"This quotation succintly expresses the problem that faced both contemporaries and subsequant generations of historians confronting the development of Russia between the revolutions of 1905 and 1917. The upheavals...
    Between the Revolutions: Russia 1905 to 1917

  • Triumphs Show 133: Little Miss Cold War

      Teaching History feature
    Students can find it hard to understand and remember the differing schools of interpretation that they encounter at A2. The process of studying differing historiographic claims can also seem rather dry and tedious. It is crucial that they grasp differences in interpretation if they are to succeed in their examinations,...
    Triumphs Show 133: Little Miss Cold War

  • Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation

      Historian article
    High school history teacher Brent Dyck is one of our Canadian readers. He has offered this item to The Historian as a contribution to our commitment to explore the historical approaches and values that we are seeking to convey to young people and the wider public. We hope that you may...
    Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Introducing students to historical interpretation

  • Polychronicon 119: The Second World War and popular culture

      Teaching History feature
    Polychronicon was a fourteenth-century chronicle that brought together much of the knowledge of its own age. Our Polychronicon in Teaching History is a regular feature helping school history teachers to update their subject knowledge, with special emphasis on recent historiography and changing interpretation. This edition of 'Polychronicon' investigates World War...
    Polychronicon 119: The Second World War and popular culture

  • Establishing a dialogue with Year 9 about why environmental history matters

      Teaching History article
    The enquiry sequence on which Alex Benger reports in this article was inspired by two specific concerns: a sense that history education must have more to contribute to young people’s understanding of and ability to confront the climate crisis; and a desire to help pupils to engage more broadly with...
    Establishing a dialogue with Year 9 about why environmental history matters

  • Russian Revolution: Social Movements between the Revolutions Feb-Oct 1917

      Lecture
    On the 29th November Dr Jane McDermid gave the second of her lectures on the Russian Revolution, at the Weston Theatre, Manchester. John Laver, Principal Examiner in History at AQA also gave some invaluable advice on how to answer A Level History Exam questions. Click the links below to access their lecture notes>>>...
    Russian Revolution: Social Movements between the Revolutions Feb-Oct 1917

  • Being historically rigorous with creativity

      Teaching History article
    After a Fellowship in Holocaust Education at the Imperial War Museum, Andy Lawrence decided that something was missing in normal approaches to teaching emotive and controversial issues such as genocide, a deficit demonstrated by recent research by the Holocaust Education Development Programme. As part of his fellowship, Lawrence created an...
    Being historically rigorous with creativity

  • World War 2 Website

      Link
    WW2History.com is a multimedia resource on World War II, brought to you by award winning historian and filmmaker Laurence Rees. The site was designed and built by Sunday Publishing on behalf of renowned historian and filmmaker Laurence Rees. It is designed to be an accessible and authoritative resource on World...
    World War 2 Website

  • The Russian Constitutional Monarchy, 1907-17

      Classic Pamphlet
    The defeat of the revolution of 1905 afforded the absolutist Tsarist monarchy an opportunity to reform the administration and to seek a new basis of support in place of the declining gentry class. Historians have been divided ever since over the constitutional system's chances of success. Had Tsardom advanced far...
    The Russian Constitutional Monarchy, 1907-17

  • Polychronicon 177: The New Deal in American history

      Teaching History feature
    Over 50 years ago I read my first serious book on American history. I can still remember the excitement of reading William E. Leuchtenburg’s Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932–1940. His description of FDR and American politics in the 1930s seemed so much more colourful and dramatic than...
    Polychronicon 177: The New Deal in American history

  • Cunning Plan 97: A-Level: International Relations 1890-1914

      Teaching History feature
    'No war is inevitable until it starts.' Good quote. Not mine, but A.J.P. Taylor's. The outbreak of the First World War is a good way to test it! Did the statesmen of the day know the First World War was coming? Put another way, why was there no general European...
    Cunning Plan 97: A-Level: International Relations 1890-1914

  • Developing transferable knowledge at A-level

      Teaching History article
    From a compartmentalised to a complicated past: developing transferable knowledge at A-level Students find it difficult to join up the different things they study into a complex account of the past. Examination specifications do not necessarily help with this because of the way in which history is divided up into...
    Developing transferable knowledge at A-level

  • 'But why then?' Chronological context and historical interpretations

      Teaching History article
    When Michael Fordham was introduced to Dr Seuss's Butter Battle Book he immediately recognised its potential value in the classroom as a popular interpretation of the Cold War. Wanting his Year 9 pupils to explain how and why the past has been interpreted in different ways he shows the potential pitfalls...
    'But why then?' Chronological context and historical interpretations

  • Bringing Rwanda into the classroom

      Teaching History article
    A short 20 years: meeting the challenges facing teachers who bring Rwanda into the classroom As the twentieth anniversary of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda approaches, Mark Gudgel argues that we should face the challenges posed by teaching about Rwanda. Drawing on his experience as a history teacher in the...
    Bringing Rwanda into the classroom

  • Learning lessons from genocides

      Teaching History article
    ‘Never again'? Helping Year 9 think about what happened after the Holocaust and learning lessons from genocides ‘Never again' is the clarion call of much Holocaust and genocide education. There is a danger, however, that it can become an empty, if pious, wish. How can we help pupils reflect seriously on...
    Learning lessons from genocides

  • Polychronicon 143: the Balfour Declaration

      Teaching History feature
    In a letter from the British Foreign Secretary, A.J. Balfour, to Lord Rothschild, the Anglo-Jewish leader, on 2 November 1917, the British Government declared its intention to ‘facilitate' the ‘establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people'. The Balfour Declaration, as it became known, was endorsed by...
    Polychronicon 143: the Balfour Declaration

  • A comparative revolution?

      Teaching History Article
    Although the curriculum changes of 2008 brought with them new GCSE specifications, Jonathan White was disappointed by the dated feel of some ‘Modern World' options, particularly the depth studies on offer. Drawing on his experience of teaching comparative history within the International Baccalaureate, and building on previous arguments in Teaching History...
    A comparative revolution?

  • Polychronicon 138: The Civil Rights Movement

      Teaching History feature
    "He was The One, The Hero, The One Fearless Person for whom we had waited. I hadn't even realized before that we had been waiting for Martin Luther King, Jr, but we had." So spoke the novelist Alice Walker in 1972, looking back on her teenage years. And so wrote...
    Polychronicon 138: The Civil Rights Movement