History

History as Image, Image as History By:Dipti Desai,Jessica Hamlin,Rachel Mattson Published on 2009-10-16 by Routledge History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with theoretical background and practical suggestions for teaching U.S. history topics through close readings of both primary sources and provocative works of contemporary art. History as Art, Art as History is an experientially grounded, practically minded pedagogical investigation meant to push teachers and students to think critically without sacrificing their ability to succeed in a standards-driven educational climate. Amid the educational debate surrounding rigid, unimaginative tests, classroom scripts, and bureaucratic mandates, this innovative book insists on an alternate set...

The Study of Dress History By:Lou Taylor Published on 2002-05-03 by Manchester University Press Over the past ten years the study of dress history has finally achieved academic respectability. This book shows how the fields of dress history and dress studies are now benefitting from the adoption of new multi-disciplinary approaches and outlines the full range of these approaches which draw on material culture, ethnography, and cultural studies. Raises a series of frank and fresh issues surrounding approaches to the history of dress, including analysis of the academic gender and subject divides that have riven it in the past. Comprehensive, engaging and trenchant, this will become the benchmark volume in the study of dress history. This Book was ranked at 23 by Google Books for keyword History. Book ID of The Study of Dress History's Books is Ca7l3qh8h_YC, Book which was written byLou Taylorhave ETAG "shRAS2uCtdY" Book which was published by Manchester University Press s...