A Systematic Approach to Improve Students' Historical Thinking.

Discusses a strategy designed to improve students' knowledge of historical content and competence in historical thinking, for beginning and experienced history teachers and history teaching method professors. Conventional practices in using primary sources; Information on the use of primary sources in teaching; Examples of the use of first-, second- and third-order primary documents in investigating the period of Cold War; Ways of assessing the affective dimensions of students.