Teaching College History: A Critique and Historiographical Analysis

Article published in Teaching History by Maroney and McNeill

Book Reviews

Gerda Lerner. The Female Experience: An American Documentary. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Pp. 509. Cloth, $12.50; paper,$7.95; Caroline Bird. Enterprising Women. New York: Mentor Books, 1976. Pp. 216. Paper, $1.95; Anne F. Scott and Andrew M. Scott. One Half the People: The Fight for Woman Suffrage. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1975. Pp. xiii, 173. Paper,$3.25. Review by Sally G. Allen of Hampshire College. Thomas Paine. The Rights of Man. Edited and with an introduction by Henry Collins. Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England: Penguin Books. 1976. Pp. 309. Paper, $2.50; Robert Douglas Mead, ed. Colonial American Literature: From Wilderness to Independence. New York: Mentor Books. 1976. Pp. 216. Paper,$1.95. Review by Robert K. Peters of Texas A&M University. Harry P. Owens, ed. Perspectives and Irony in American Slavery. Jackson, Mississippi: University Press of Mississippi, 1976. Pp. xii, 188. Cloth, $8.50; paper,$3.50. Review by William F. Mugleston of Albany Junior College. Carl N. Degler. The Age of the Economic Revolution, 1876-1900. 2nd edition. Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman, 1977. Paper, $4.50; Walter T. K. Nugent. From Centennial to World War: American Society, 1876-1917. Indianapolois: Bobbs-Merrill, 1977. Paper,$3.95. Review by H. Roger Grant of The University of Akron. The Staff, Social Sciences 1, University of Chicago, eds. The People Shall Judge. 2 vols. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 1949, 1976. Pp. xiv, 244; vii, 452. Paper, $5.95 per vol. Review by Noel C. Eggleston of Radford College. Kenneth M. Roemer. The Obsolete Necessity: America in Utopian Writings, 1888-1900. Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1976.$10.00; Paul Kagan. New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community. New York: Penguin Books, 1975. Paper, $5.95. Review by Richard D. Schubart of Phillips Exeter Academy. A. J. P. Taylor, Essays in English History. New York: Penguin Books in assocation with Hamish Hamilton, 1976. Pp. 335. Paper,$2.95. Review by Raymond G. Herbert of Thomas More College. Richard Graham and Peter H. Smith, eds. New Approaches to Latin American History. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1974. Pp. xiv, 275. $8.75. Review by Robert N. Seidel of Empire State College, Rochester Center

Book Reviews

Donald V. Gawronski. History: Meaning and Method. Third Edition. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1975~ ix, 132. 2.95. Review by A. Q. Larson of Westmar College. Theodore Rosengarten. All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. New York: Avon, 1974. Pp. xxv,. 583  2.25; June Jordan. Victories. New York: Avon, 1972. Pp. 115. $1.25. Review by Charles Haley of State University of New York, Binghamton. Thomas D. Clark, ed. The Great American Frontier: A Story of Western Pioneering. (The American Heritage Series.) Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1975. Pp. xl, 334.$5.95. Review by Leo E. Oliva of Fort Hays Kansas State College. Ross Evans Paulson. Women's Suffrage and Prohibition: A Comparative Study of Equality and Social Control. Glenview, Illinois and Brighton, England: Scott, Foresman, 1973. Pp . 212. $3.95. Review by Joseph M. Hawes of Kansas State University. Wilbur S. Shepperson et al., eds. Questions from the Past. (Nevada Studies in History and Political Science, number 11.) Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1973. Pp. xii, 216.$3.50. Review by Gerald H. Davis of Georgia State University. Forest G. Wood. The Era of Reconstruction, 1863-1877. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Pp. 113. $3 . 50; Robert L. Beisner. From the Old Diplomacy to the New, 1865-1900. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Pp. 162.$3.50; Melvyn Dubofsky. Industrialism and the American Worker, 1865-1920. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Pp. 150. $3.50. Review by E. Dale Odom of North Texas State University. Notes and Information from the Editor.   &nbsp

Book Reviews

Kenneth G. Goode. From Africa to the United States and Then... A Concise Afro-American History. Second Edition. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1976. Pp. 192. $2.95. Leslie H. Fishel, Jr., and Benjamin Quarles, eds. The Black American: A Documentary History. Third Edition. Glenview, Ill.: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1976. Pp. xvii, 624.$8.50. Review by Al-Tony Gilmore of the University of Maryland, College Park. John B. Duff and Larry A. Greene, eds. Slavery: Its Origin and Legacy. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Pp . IX, 143. $3.75. Review by Gossie Harold Hudson of Lincoln University. Michael Les Benedict. The Fruits of Victory: Alternatives in Restoring the Union, 1865-1877. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975. Pp. 154.$3.25. Review by Robert W. Dubay of Bainbridge Junior College. John Shelton Reed. The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1974. Pp. xxi, 131. $4.95. Review by Monroe Billington of the New Mexico State University. Wilcomb E. Washburn. The Assault on Indian Tribalism: The General Allotment Law (Dawes Act) of 1887. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1975 . Pp. viii, 79.$3.75. Review by Richard N. Ellis of the University of New Mexico. Paul A. Carter. The Twenties in America. Second Edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Pp. ix, 131. $3.50; Paul K. Conkin. The New Deal. Second Edition. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1975. Pp. xi , 114.$3.50. Review by James L. Forsythe of Fort Hays Kansas State College. Warren A. Beck and Myles L. Clowers, eds. Understanding American History Through Fiction. 2 vols. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975. Pp. x, 200; x, 210. $4.95 per vol. Review by Philip Reed Rulon of Northern Arizona University. (Missing) Lafore, The Long Fuse: An Interpretation of the Origins of World War I. Review by James A. Zabel. (Missing) Cassels, Fascism. Review by Bullitt Lowry. (Pages 76-77 Missing) Buxton and Prichard, editors, Excellence in University Teaching: New Essays. Review by Mary Quinlivan of the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. Paul Smith, ed. The Historian and Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1976. Pp. viii, 208. Review by Steve Philip Kramer of the University of New Mexico. Jackdaws: Mini-Courses in History. New York: Grossman, 1975. Review by J. Wade Caruthers of Southern Connecticut State College