CONTENTS:- 1. What History Is.? 2. History in the school curriculum before 1890. 3. The problem of grading History. 4. The question of aims and Values. 5. The Biographical approach to history. 6. Teaching Chronology. 7. The Use of Textbooks in history and other social studies. 8. The selection and management of collateral reading. 9. Correlation, fusion and integration. 10. The study of social groups.
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History, in its broadest sense, is everything that ever happened. It is the past itself, whatever that may be. But the past cannot be observed directly. What is known about it must be learned from such traces of former conditions and events as time and chance and the foresight of man may have preserved. Our practical concern in forming a conception of history, therefore, with these traces, the methods employed in studying them, and the results of the study. Traces of past facts of any kind may be regarded as possible material. We speak of a history of plants, of animals and even of inanimate nature. But history in the usual acceptation of the term means the history of man. The materials to be studied are the traces left by his existence in the world, his thoughts, feelings and actions.
