Everything old is new again: social history, the National History Standards and the crisis in the teaching of high school American history

Journal of Social History, Mid-Winter, 1995 by Barry W. Bienstock

Daniel Rose Chair in History Riverdale, NY 10471

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I would like to thank Barbara Berg, Jan Lewis, James Grimmelmann and the Rose family.

1. Jane Lancaster, "The Public Private Scholarly Teaching Historian"; Joyce M. Cruse, "Practicing History: A High School History Teacher's Reflections"; Martha K. Levy, "Evolution of a Self-Made History Teacher," in "The Practice of American History: A Special Issue," Journal of American History 81 (1994): 1055-1077.

2. Lynne Cheney, "Mocking America at U.S. Expense," The New York Times, March 10, 1995, A29.

3. John Higham, Strangers in the Land: Patterns of American Nativism, 1860-1925 (New Brunswick, NJ, 1955, 1988), 155-7; Ronald Takaki, A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America (Boston, 1993), 307, 330.

4. Peter Brimelow, Alien Nation: Common Sense About America's Immigration Disaster (New York, 1995); see also Stephan Themstrom's review in The Washington Post Book World, April 2, 1995, 1, 10.

5. The secondary school teachers who contributed to "The Practice of American History" seem intimidated by modern scholarship.