Active Learning in History Classes

Authors

  • Peter Frederick Wabash College

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.16.2.67-83

Abstract

I believe that the great challenge confronting historians today is the challenge of the classroom. To meet it we shall have to give to teaching a higher place in our scale of values than we do today .... We shall ourselves have to be the best teachers that we know how to be, the most humane, the most sympathetic, the most dedicated.

--Dexter Perkins, AHA Presidential Address, December 1956

and thirty years later . . .

I am suggesting that unless we restore to the teaching of history at every level that humanistic aspect that sees history primarily as the story of people living in a distant time and in another place--unless we do that we lose the greatest strength that history has to offer . . . . Teaching history well is one of the best things a person can do.

--Gerda Lerner, OAH Address to Teachers, April 1986

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Published

1991-09-01

How to Cite

Frederick, Peter. 1991. “Active Learning in History Classes”. Teaching History: A Journal of Methods 16 (2):67-83. https://doi.org/10.33043/TH.16.2.67-83.

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 2 (1991)

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 1991 Peter Frederick

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