Nonfiction for the classroom : Milton Meltzer on writing, history, and social responsibility /

Nonfiction for the classroom : Milton Meltzer on writing, history, and social responsibility /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Meltzer, Milton, 1915-
Other Authors:	Saul, Wendy
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Newark, DE : Teachers College Press ; International Reading Association, c1994.
Series:	Language and literacy series (New York, N.Y.) ;
Subjects:	Historiography. United States > Historiography. United States > History > Study and teaching.

Table of Contents:

Introduction / E. Wendy Saul
1. Seeding Vision, Energy, and Hope: Writing and Social Responsibility
2. Where Have All the Prizes Gone?
3. On Teaching and Learning History
4. The Book as Revelation
5. History as Sausage: Richly Textured and a Bit Spicy
6. Imagination, Invention, and Information
7. Ordinary People: In Their Own Words
8. On Ethnic Stereotyping
9. Writing About the Jews
10. On Racism
11. On Wars and Peace
12. On Terrorism
13. The Designing Narrator
14. Benjamin Franklin
15. Lydia Maria Child
16. Dorothea Lange
17. Christopher Columbus
18. Hughes, Twain, Child, and Sanger: Four Who Locked Horns with the Censors
Epilogue: On Being a Writer.