Emphasizes on time as the defining nature of history - how events lead to other events, actions, changes, and often - unexpected outcomes. This title offer students a step-by-step narrative with balanced coverage of political, economic, social, cultural, military, religious, and intellectual history[...]
Every major measure of students' historical understanding since 1917 has demonstrated that students do not retain, understand, or enjoy their school experiences with history. Bruce Lesh believes that this is due to the way we teach history -- lecture and memorization. Over the last fifteen years, Br[...]