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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.

Relates an experience of teaching American history at Cambridge University in England. Inquiries made by the college students about American politics; Rules posed by the university to its students; Factors being considered by the university in accepting students.

The article discusses the social condition of Manchuria, China, as of 1933, a year after the Japanese have given them salvation. During this year, Manchuria has been labeled as the world's last great new land in the Northern Hemisphere. The staffing of the place has allegedly been easy since higher Chinese officials were placed accordingly at their strategically distributed domestic establishment. The only problem faced by them during this period came in terms of revenue and military ends.

Focuses on the dispute between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland. Aggressive behavior of Protestants against Catholics; Views of Protestant on unemployment in Catholic areas; Report on making Belfast a separate province of Great Britain; Focus on unemployment in Catholic areas; Information on parochial schools teaching Irish history and Irish patriotism to Catholics living there; Discrimination against Catholics in areas like jobs and housing, and Ulster; Attempts to attack civil rights demonstrations of Catholics; Efforts of Belfast Government to stop catholic demonstrations.

Presents an obituary for Professor Gaetano Salvemini, who taught history for 60 years in the Universities of Messina, Pisa and Florence, who died on September 6, 1957.

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.

Discusses ways in which the history teacher can and should give training in writing. Need for English teachers to partner with history teachers; Effects of the change from history to social studies; Results of the abandonment of writing; Use of essay questions to stimulate students' imagination.

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 information on Princess Christina, granddaughter of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden. Admission to Redcliffe College of Cambridge, Massachusetts; Description of the palace in which Princess Christina lived in; Information on her plans to study history and music.

Comments on the important role of strong individuals in making history. Influence of blind movements on the teaching of history; Concerns raised on the tendency among teachers toward the biographical approach.

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.

Presents the author's views on the participation of the young people in the public affairs. Opinion of the author that students attempt to discuss current international problems which they simply do not have the historical and geographical and semantic knowledge; Comment of George Kennan, United States Ambassador to Yugoslavia that the early days of school and colleges are the only ones available for history, for literature, for art, for thought and for philosophy; Difficulty of teaching anything to students, who are so ignorant of their own language that it is nearly impossible lo communicate to them the meaning of precise expression.

The article deals with issues concerning the level of knowledge among U.S. college students on the country's history. Schoolteachers and educational experts were recently criticized for the poor performance and weakness of college students in U.S. history. This poor performance may be the result of much emphasis placed on social studies and on the removal of the old-fashioned date memorizing teaching strategy. The attitudes of college freshmen towards history may also have contributed to this poor performance.

The article investigates into the international history and theory of the capitalist, or free-enterprise system by researchers from the U.S. The study examined the operation of planned societies in the neighboring countries. The researchers initiated the study with the aim of identifying the true function of the one capitalist, free-enterprising country in the modern world.

Profiles Joseph Kinsey Howard, a contributing author to the periodical "The Saturday Evening Post." Belief of Howard as a child that Great Britain was the one to be blamed for the War of 1812; Argument raised by Howard regarding the credibility of U.S. textbooks in presenting the whole story behind the War of 1812; Appointment of Howard as news editor of the "Great Falls Leader."