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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.

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 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.

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.