A Biography of America
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10030360 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald A Ritchie (United States Senate Library, corresponding author), Fred Barzyk |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 88 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 1181-1181 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of American History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2700556 |
| OpenAlex | W2009677184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Teaching survey courses in American history poses the daunting task of compressing and presenting several centuries of events, issues, and people in a package that students can grasp and retain meaningfully. All the more daunting is the challenge to turn that package into a videotaped television series that can serve as a telecourse, supplementary material for regular classwork, and a video reference for libraries. A Biography of America admirably achieves these objectives in twenty-six half-hour programs on videocassette, accompanied by a textbook (Mary Beth Norton, A People and a Nation, 2001), teacher and student guides, and an interactive Web site . The series is framed as a course taught by Donald L. Miller, professor of history at Lafayette College. Positioned behind a podium, Miller delivers his lectures in a direct, intense, and engaging manner. From time to time he personalizes his accounts by drawing on the experiences
Art · Art history · Biography · GRASP · Library science · Management · Miller · Programming language · Task (project management · Visual arts · Computer Science · History · Library Science and Administration · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |