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Magazine of History

Using Literature to Teach History
Volume 13, no 2, Winter 1999


FROM THE EDITOR
Capturing Student Interest with an Interdisciplinary Approach
Lois Rudnick

ESSAYS
"No Pictures in My Head": The Uses of Literature in the Development of Historical Understanding
Marsha Gilpin Ehlers

Teaching History Through Immigration Stories
Paul Lauter

Lived History: A Multimedia Approach
Elizabeth Fay with Wayne Hatmaker

LESSON PLANS
American Colonial Life as Experienced through Daniel Defoe's Moll Flanders
Nancy Traubitz

The Slave Narrative as a Vehicle to Link History and Literature Instruction
Dave Winter

The Dating Game: Willa Cather's My Antonia
Dan Swainbank

Using Stephen Crane's Maggie to Teach the Progressive Era
David Gerwin and Vassilios Manolios with Lia Popodopoulos

African-American Poetry and History: Making Connections
Doris M. Meadows

American Pathfinders: Using Ray Bradbury's Martian Chronicles to Teach Frontier History
Deborah Wielgot Schmalholz

Political History in Fiction
Mort Sipress

EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Using Literature to Teach History: An ERIC/ChESS Sample
David Kelly

Literature, History, and the World Wide Web: A Guide to Resources
Jessica Loving

ON TEACHING
Getting a Clue: Incorporating Hard-boiled Detective Fiction into the Social Studies Curriculum
Michael Edmondson

REVIEWS
Lynda G. Adamson, Literature Connections to History
Matt Blessing

Frances Fuller Victor, Women of the Gold Rush: "The New Penelope" and Other Stories
Jane Lancaster

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