1 Teachers’ Curriculum Institute has developed an extensive set of experiential learning strategies in K-12 history and social studies for their “History Alive” activity series. Teachers can access a sampling of “History Alive” activities on the Institute’s website.
http://www.teachtci.com/methods/community.asp
2 Gar Alperovitz,
The Decision To Use The Atomic Bomb
(New York: Vintage Books, 1995), p. 524
3 Barton J. Bernstein, “The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered,”
Foreign Affairs
, Vol. 74, No. 1 (January/February 1995), p. 143
4 Examples of textbooks cited above include, John Mack Faragher, et al.,
Out of Many: A History of the American People
, 3rd ed., Combined ed. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000); Mary Beth Norton, et al.,
A People and a Nation: A History of the United States
, 5th ed. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1998)
5 David L. Bender, ed., “Introduction: Why Did the U.S. Become Involved in Vietnam?”
The Vietnam War: Opposing Viewpoints
(San Diego: Greenhaven Press, 1990), p. 14
6 Alvin J. Bernstein, “The War Weakened U.S. Military Power,”
The Vietnam War: Opposing Viewpoints
, p. 199
7 Scott Peterson,
Me Against My Brother: At War in Somalia, Sudan, and Rwanda
(New York: Routledge, 2001), pp. 37-50. The process by which food aid for the starving was constantly threatened is described by Peterson in Chapter 3, entitled “A Land Forgotten By God.”
8 Mark Bowden,
Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War
(New York: Penguin Books, 1999), p. 334
9 Scott Peterson,
Me Against My Brother
, p. xix
10 Mark Bowden,
Black Hawk Down
, p. 331
11 Gar Alperovitz,
The Decision To Use The Atomic Bomb
, citing a quote from J. Samuel Walker, chief historian of the U.S. Nuclear regulatory Commission, p. 7
12 Barton J. Bernstein,
The Atomic Bombings Reconsidered
, p. 135
