Engaging the Past

2015-06-02 History

Author : Alison Landsberg
Release : 2015-06-02
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 460/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Engaging the Past written by Alison Landsberg. This book was released on 2015-06-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading films, television dramas, reality shows, and virtual exhibits, among other popular texts, Engaging the Past examines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewers. Contemporary media can encourage complex interactions with the past that have far-reaching consequences for history and politics. Viewers experience these representations personally, cognitively, and bodily, but, as this book reveals, not just by identifying with the characters portrayed. Some of the works considered in this volume include the films Hotel Rwanda (2004), Good Night and Good Luck (2005), and Milk (2008); the television dramas Deadwood, Mad Men, and Rome; the reality shows Frontier House, Colonial House, and Texas Ranch House; and The Secret Annex Online, accessed through the Anne Frank House website, and the Kristallnacht exhibit, accessed through the Unites States Holocaust Museum website. These mass cultural texts cultivate what Alison Landsberg calls an "affective engagement" with the past, tying the viewer to an event or person and fostering a sense of intimacy that does more than transport the viewer back in time. Affect, she suggests, can also work to disorient the viewer, forcibly pushing him or her out of the narrative and back into his or her own body. By analyzing these specific popular history formats, Landsberg shows the unique way they provoke historical thinking and produce historical knowledge, prompting a reconsideration of what constitutes history and an understanding of how history works in the contemporary mediated public sphere.

Engaging the Past

2015 Documentary-style television programs

Author : Alison Landsberg
Release : 2015
Genre : Documentary-style television programs
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Download or read book Engaging the Past written by Alison Landsberg. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the making and meaning of history for everyday viewers

Engaging the Past

2024-02-14 Education

Author : Elizabeth George
Release : 2024-02-14
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 078/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Engaging the Past written by Elizabeth George. This book was released on 2024-02-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engaging the Past: Action and Interaction in the History Classroom provides practical steps toward using engaging strategies in the classroom to teach students to think historically. These strategies include an approach developed by the author called “The You Decide! Lecture,” and innovative ways to use board games and role-playing games in the history classroom. The goal is not simply to add window dressing to fundamentally dull lessons, but rather to re-examine how teachers think about students as learners of history. This book follows the growing trend within historical pedagogy to care less about content coverage and more about deep engagement, student learning, and the importance of historical thinking. The students in our classrooms today are the history teachers of tomorrow and awakening them to the exciting complexities of the past is critical to keep the study of history thriving.

Dialogue with the Past

2004 Oral history

Author : Glenn Whitman
Release : 2004
Genre : Oral history
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Book Rating : 499/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Dialogue with the Past written by Glenn Whitman. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oral history is a marvelous force for empowering young people with a love of history. But educators today may wonder how they might use it to inspire their students while still teaching the necessary curriculum and meeting standards. In Dialogue with the Past Glenn Whitman addresses these concerns from his own rich experience and that of many other teachers and students. He helps readers understand the background and methodology of oral history, guides them in creating and conducting an oral history project in the classroom, and directly addresses the issue of meeting standards. Peppered with useful tips, examples from students and teachers, and reproducible forms, along with a comprehensive bibliography, this book will be a vital and inspirational tool for anyone working with secondary students. Visit the authors' web page

Introduction to Public History

2017-03-06 Business & Economics

Author : Cherstin M. Lyon
Release : 2017-03-06
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Rating : 236/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Introduction to Public History by : Cherstin M. Lyon

Download or read book Introduction to Public History written by Cherstin M. Lyon. This book was released on 2017-03-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to Public History: Interpreting the Past, Engaging Audiences is a brief foundational textbook for public history. It is organized around the questions and ethical dilemmas that drive public history in a variety of settings, from local community-based projects to international case studies. This book is designed for use in undergraduate and graduate classrooms with future public historians, teachers, and consumers of history in mind. The authors are practicing public historians who teach history and public history to a mix of undergraduate and graduate students at universities across the United States and in international contexts. This book is based on original research and the authors’ first-hand experiences, offering a fresh perspective on the dynamic field of public history based on a decade of consultation with public history educators about what they needed in an introductory textbook. Each chapter introduces a concept or common practice to students, highlighting key terms for student review and for instructor assessment of student learning. The body of each chapter introduces theories, and basic conceptual building blocks intermixed with case studies to illustrate these points. Footnotes credit sources but also serve as breadcrumbs for instructors who might like to assign more in-depth reading for more advanced students or for the purposes of lecture development. Each chapter ends with suggestions for activities that the authors have tried with their own students and suggested readings, books, and websites that can deepen student exposure to the topic.

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