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The article presents a discussion on the importance of communicating the history of the U.S. by educators to the younger generation of Americans, adapted from a speech by the author.

Focuses on the history of the U.S. Discussion on how the citizenry understand the their heritage; Increase in the number of enrollees taking a course on history in 1969; Decline of enrollments in the liberal arts in 1979; Information on the books 'Growth of the American Republic,' by Morison and Commager and 'The American Nation,' by John D. Hicks.

Presents personal reflections on teaching about the 1961 Vietnam war to college history students.

The article focuses on issues related to the way in which history is taught to U.S. elementary and high school students. Frances FitzGerald discusses these issues in her book "America Revised," along with an overview of the American culture. According to FitzGerald, history textbooks are universally boring and there is no comparable uniformity of subject matter.

The article presents a discussion about the teaching of history. It presents a letter from a student named Christopher Brown which contains a list of questions he needs to answer as an American history student. It also cites Donald G. Brownlow who handed out the questions. It also presents the historical essay contest held in Oklahoma to promote the study of history.

The article presents news briefs that are beneficial to the study and teaching of American history. Folkways Records and Service Corp. has released a commercial collection of folk music entitled "Anthology of American Folk Music." The book "As You Pass By," by Kenneth Holcomb Dunshee presents an illustration of the local history of New York City, New York. The book "The Handbook of Free Films," compiled by Allan S. Larson and Nanette Notarius is a useful guide about 16mm films.

In the article, the author discusses the need for Americans to learn the lessons of history to avoid repeating it by comparing Americans' behavior to his 101-year-old mother who largely lost her memory. Also cited are the substantial decline in the number of college students studying history, the alleged collective amnesia of the American people, and a survey showing significant decline in knowledge of American history and government.

Discusses the need to know history in order to be knowledgeable about the news. View that journalists must not ignore the past when considering a news story; Importance of knowing the history of Poland, Russia, the Middle East, and South Africa when reporting about them; Perception that Americans are not as interested in the past as they are in the future; Topic of Frank Capra, who made propaganda movies for the U.S. government during World War II; Thoughts on what has happened to history as a concept and a discipline during the 20th century.

The article focuses on the junior historian movement in the United States. The movement is a development in teaching where state, local, and historical societies help the classroom teachers teach the American history. It is a way of connecting the curriculum to the lives of the students. The idea of the movement came from H. Bailey Carroll, director of the Texas Historical Society.

The author reflects on the proposed budget reduction by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump on history programs and its potential effects on efforts to teach Americans the history of their country. Also cited are the proposed cut to the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the proposed abolition of the Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS).

The article presents a reprint of an article by former U.S. President John F. Kennedy, which appeared in a previous issue of the periodical "American Heritage." Kennedy wrote that the study of history is the way in which a nation constructs its national characteristics and nationalistic perceptions.

Asserts that today the Great Man theory is about as out of fashion as poor Christopher Columbus himself, and so-called people's history is in vogue. The fundamental importance of technology itself; Economic organization as a driving force in history; Emergence of joint-stock companies.

Asserts that there's an official consensus about history in European countries that's lacking in the US. Education and the study of history in the US, France, England, Wales and Germany; Report from the National Endowment for the Humanities; Higher standards for knowledge of history in other countries; Recommendation by a panel of educators in New York that the social studies curriculum be revised; Multiculturalism; More.

The article reviews the film "History in Your Community," a classroom teaching film from Coronet.

The article explains that "Origins of New England, 1620-1820" is an adult continuing education course offered by Massachusetts-based Boston University, which emphasizes field trips to historic sites or to reproductions that depict the settlement and development of New England. The course includes lectures on the Pilgrims and Puritans, and on the Lexington-Concord battles.

The article highlights several seminars, symposiums, special classes and informal groups on history in the United States. The New York State Historical Association held a series of seminars on American culture. Sessions are devoted to regional history, early American crafts, folk culture and problems in writing local history. The Indiana Historical Bureau developed elaborate and detailed plans for an Indiana History Workshop.

Presents the views of the editors of 'American Heritage' with regard to the importance of historical education within society. Considerations of patterns in history; Reference to certain influence writers, historians, and public figures.

Discusses the role of historians in the study and teaching of history. Experiences of the author as a boy during the U.S. Civil War; Impact of authors such as Bruce Catton and Allan Nevins, who wrote about the war.

The article focuses on the use of contemporary evidence in the study of history. James Parton commented on this contemporary evidence in the first studios biography of Aaron Burr which was published in 1857. The works of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton in the Mercantile Library of New York showed marks of having been taken out.

The article presents the views of professor Henry B. Veatch and General Robert E. Lee on history. On his article entitled "The What and the Why of the Humanities" which appeared in an issue of The Key Reporter, Veatch writes that there is no learning so proper for the direction of the life of man as history.

The article comments that Americans need to study American history because the professional historian has abandoned the field of local history to the amateur. This has the uninspiring calendar of events in the . History rescues the individual from the lowly status of a census statistic to which historical synthesis on a national scale has been reduced.

The article announces the availability of recorded dramatizations of historic episodes of the Empire State in the United States. The project is planned and supervised by the New York State Junior League and the Office of the State Historian. The reenactments will add to the realism of the study of state and local history subjects in New York.