An excellent way to teach history is by focusing on the lives of individual historical figures. History is the story of living persons, who for good or ill have made history as it is. To understand history, students must learn about the men and women who shaped events. (RM)

Assessed the validity of using systematic life history information to predict three vocational decision-making criteria in 200 college students: vocational decidedness and its two components, vocational identity and vocational maturity. Significant typologies were identified, however, results indicated that the overall construct of vocational…

Gives a profile of Anna Mae Picton Squash, an Indian woman devoted to the service of the Indian people and Reports on her tragic death. (AM)

This paper focuses on similarities in the lives of Jean Piaget and Lev Vygotsky to enlighten study of their pedagogies and to provide some information for current classroom techniques. Neither man had a great deal to say about his early life, although Piaget published an autobiography. A number of primary sources were used to construct the…

This biographical resource outlines the lives and achievements of more than 200 philosophers and religious leaders and shows how their accomplishments have influenced the world and the thoughts of those who followed. The resource provides information on how these thoughts and beliefs made a lasting impact on society. The volume begins with an…

This collection of biographical articles presents several issues concerning story of women working in the social studies placing it within a broad intellectual and social context. Following the "Preface" (M. S. Crocco), the collection is divided into five chronological sections. The first section entitled, "Conceptualizing Social…

The feats of individuals who have made history in the aerospace world are often misunderstood and soon ignored or forgotten after the first notoriety has been achieved. Amelia Earhart was selected as the subject for this learning packet because of her brilliant accomplishments on the world of flight, a persistent desire to determine what really…

This special subject volume on "Authors" was especially created to appeal to young readers in a format they can enjoy reading and readily understand. Each volume contains alphabetically arranged sketches. Each entry provides at least one picture of the individual profiled, and bold-faced rubrics lead the reader to information on birth,…

This paper (in the form of a dialogue) tells the stories of two members of a remarkable family of nine children, the Flexners of Louisville, Kentucky. The paper focuses on Abraham and Simon, who were reformers in the field of medical education in the United States. The dialogue takes Abraham Flexner through his undergraduate education at Johns…

Pays tribute to Laura Ingalls Wilder's style as a writer of children's books and comments on her life as a woman. (RB)

Reviews the college career of Paul Robeson, arguing that he, demonstrating that he was not just equal to, but in fact superior to the vast majority of whites, athletically and academically, attacked the prevailing myth of white superiority, and singlehandedly demonstrated the absurdity of the belief in black inferiority. (Author/JM)

Article provided an analysis of the films of Stanley Kubrick, credits for the film, Dr. Strangelove, a sequence outline of Dr. Strangelove and study questions relating to the film. It further made suggestions for additional reading. (RK)

Nicholas Murray Butler, G. Stanley Hall, Charles W. Eliot, the respective subjects of three biographies reviewed here, were university presidents whose personal dominance has too often impeded the biographer in his task of objective historical inquiry. (JH)

Article illustrates how the cultural products of an epoch educate with or without schooling. (Author/RK)

Transcript of an hour-long television program taped at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (DS)