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Frederick Douglass and John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
The debate over slavery was one of the defining issues in the United States from the writing of the Declaration of Independence through the Civil...
Social Education, 03/01/09 by Alan Singer · More from publication -
Reasonable imaginings: learning from imagination.(Report)
If imagination bears at all on moral judgment, I want to suggest that it is not by teaching a precept, either in an interested, custom-bound,...
symploke, 01/01/08 by Singer, Alan · More from publication -
Venture Smith's autobiography and runaway ad: enslavement in early New York
Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. notes, in the introduction to The Classic Slave Narratives, that more than 6,000 ex-slaves left some form of...
Social Education, 01/01/07 by Alan J. Singer · More from publication -
Strange bedfellows: the contradictory goals of the coalition making war on social studies.
Was Alexander Hamilton the man who made modern America? As a historian, I do not agree, but as a social studies teacher I certainly think it is a...
Social Studies, The, 09/01/05 by Singer, Alan · More from publication -
In defense of free speech and education for democracy
Turmoil over the academic freedom of teachers has been brewing for a number of months at Columbia University, and recently spread to the New York...
Social Education, 04/01/05 by Alan Singer · More from publication -
Past as prologue: history vs. social studies
DOES HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? DOES HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? Maybe, but I am not convinced. One thing that certainly keeps returning is public...
Social Education, 03/01/04 by Alan Singer · More from publication -
The self-deceiving muse: fiction and the rationalistic dictates of the present.(Critical Essay)
One The present-ness of character in fictional narrative figures an inherently conflicted temporality. No one would dispute that plot...
symploke, 01/01/04 by Singer, Alan · More from publication -
Separation of Church and State Protects Both Secular And Religious Worlds
Jesus told the Pharisees that they should "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's; and unto God the things that are God's," Mr....
Phi Delta Kappan, 02/01/00 by Alan Singer · More from publication -
Bridges and the city: An interdisciplinary project
Each summer, group activities in the Learning Center focus on a centerwide theme. In 1998, the theme was inspired by the 100th anniversary of New...
Childhood Education, 01/01/99 by Singer, Judith Y; Goodman, Cecelia; Ridley, Theodora; Singer, Alan · More from publication -
Comic Depth: Curtis White's Laughable Idea of Home
Curtis White employs humor in his work, 'The Idea of Home', to allow his readers accessibility to his intentions. Simultaneously, White rejects the...
Review of Contemporary Fiction, The, 06/22/98 by Alan Singer · More from publication
