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Teaching with Biography
Volume 20, no 1 • January 2006

FROM THE EDITOR
Celebrating Lives, and a Milestone
Kevin B. Byrne

FOREWORD
From the Stacks
Robert H. Ferrell

ARTICLES
Why Biographies Matter in the Classroom
Shirley A. Leckie

The Spirit of the 1920s
John C. Chalberg

Black Librarians and the Search for Women’s Biography during the New Negro History Movement
Julie Des Jardins

Biography as Environmental “Herstory”
Stephen Kneeshaw

TEACHING RESOURCES
Two American Entrepeneurs: Madam C. J. Walker and J. C. Penney
Rita G. Koman and the Teaching with Historic Places Staff

Teaching the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Karen Cobb Carroll

Media Review: February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
Timothy N. Thurber

TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY WITH DOCUMENTS FROM THE GILDER LEHRMAN COLLECTION
"In the end you are sure to succeed": Lincoln on Perseverance
Harold Holzer

ON TEACHING
What a Hot Comb Can Tell Us about History: Material Culture and the Classroom
Diana B. Turk

AMERICA ON THE WORLD STAGE
The American Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction on the World Stage
Edward L. Ayers

National Park Service Historic Sites: Biography

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