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The History Teacher’s Magazine

  Volume I.
  Number 2.

  PHILADELPHIA, OCTOBER, 1909.

  $1.00 a year
  15 cents a copy




CONTENTS.


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  GAIN, LOSS AND PROBLEM IN RECENT HISTORY TEACHING, by Prof.
  William MacDonald                                               23

  TRAINING THE HISTORY TEACHER IN THE ORGANIZATION OF HIS FIELD
  OF STUDY, by Prof. N. M. Trenholme                              24

  INSTRUCTION IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS, by
  Prof. William A. Schaper                                        26

  LESSONS DRAWN FROM THE PAPERS OF HISTORY EXAMINATION
  CANDIDATES, by Elizabeth Briggs                                 27

  THE STUDY OF WESTERN HISTORY IN OUR SCHOOLS, by Prof. Clarence
  W. Alvord                                                       28

  THE NEWEST STATE ASSOCIATION AND AN OLDER ONE, by H. W.
  Edwards and Prof. Eleanor L. Lord                               30

  AN ANCIENT HISTORY CHARACTER SOCIAL, by Mary North 31

  EDITORIAL                                                       32

  EUROPEAN HISTORY IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, by Daniel C.
  Knowlton                                                        33

  ENGLISH HISTORY IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, by C. B. Newton        34

  ROBINSON AND BEARD’S “DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN EUROPE,” reviewed
  by Prof. S. B. Fay                                              35

  AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, by Arthur M. Wolfson  36

  JAMES AND SANFORD’S NEW TEXTBOOK ON AMERICAN HISTORY, reviewed
  by John Sharpless Fox                                           37

  ANCIENT HISTORY IN THE SECONDARY SCHOOL, by William Fairley     38

  FOWLER’S “SOCIAL LIFE AT ROME,” reviewed by Prof. Arthur C.
  Howland                                                         39

  HISTORY IN THE GRADES--THE COLUMBUS LESSON, by Armand J.
  Gerson                                                          40

  REPORTS FROM THE HISTORICAL FIELD, edited by Walter H. Cushing:

  The Colorado Movement; Raising the Standard in Louisiana;
  the North Central Association; Syllabus in Civil Government;
  Report of the Committee of Eight; the New England Association;
  Bibliographies; Exchange of Professors in Summer Schools        41

  CORRESPONDENCE                                                  44

Published monthly, except July and August, by McKinley Publishing Co.,
Philadelphia, Pa.

Copyright, 1909, McKinley Publishing Co.

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