Educating the nation
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Explains how a social studies teacher and a library director worked together to take their students behind the scenes in Louis XIV's court. How they used a modified sociogram as a tool to humanize key names in history by delving into their personal relationships.
- SSFH Society News. // French History;Jun2011, Vol. 25 Issue 2, p275
The article presents news related to the Society for the Study of French History including information on various papers that have received postgraduate research grants and information on the society's Annual Conference, which will be held July 14-15, 2011 at Fitzwilliam College, University of...
- Reflections on the pluralization of Enlightenment and the notion of theological Enlightenment as process. Burson, Jeffrey D. // French History;Dec2012, Vol. 26 Issue 4, p524
Scholars now quite regularly speak of the Radical Enlightenment, the Atlantic Enlightenment, the Super Enlightenment, the Religious Enlightenment, and any number of different national and religious variants of Enlightenment in addition to that of the French. Though much is to be gained from this...
- The Object of French Studies: Gebrauchskunst. KLEIN, RICHARD // Forum for Modern Language Studies;Oct2001, Vol. 37 Issue 4, p405
The articles discusses the discipline of French Studies as distinguished from other disciplines such as French Literature, French Linguistics and French History. It derives its definitions and methods from Leo Spitzer's essay "American Advertising Explained as Popular Art." Gebrauchskunst or use...
- Fog over channel; continent accessible? Buxton, Ellen // Teaching History;Sep2010, Issue 140, p4
Two linked motivations inspired Ellen Buxton's research study: she wanted pupils to make connections between British and French history and she wanted to explore the potential of counter-factual reasoning within a causation enquiry. It is difficult for pupils to analyse the causes of the French...
- How the Indian Ocean Made Medieval France. WARREN, MICHELLE R. // Australian Journal of French Studies (Australian Journal of Fren;Sep-Dec2009, Vol. 46 Issue 3, p249
The article considers the relationship between history and criticism of medieval French literature and the political theory of postcolonialism. It is noted that the study of medieval French literature and culture became a formal academic discipline during France's period of colonial expansion...
- "History Written with a Little Spite": Palmer, Brinton, and an American Debate on the French Revolution. Layton Harvey, John // Historical Reflections;Winter2011, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p38
How did the historical profession in America view the French democratic tradition during the international crisis of modern liberalism of the twentieth century? Although Robert R. Palmer is remembered for his historical texts, his defense of popular democracy in the historiography of the French...
- SSFH Society News. // French History;Jun2012, Vol. 26 Issue 2, p271
The article presents personal narratives from graduate students who received grants issued by the Society for the Study for the French History (SSFH) and offers information on two conferences. The graduate students include Matthew McHaffie of University of St. Andrews, Louise Seaward of the...
- Robert R. Palmer's Catholics and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France: An Overdue Tribute. Van Kley, Dale K. // Historical Reflections;Winter2011, Vol. 37 Issue 3, p18
Robert R. Palmer wrote his first book, Catholics and Unbelievers in Eighteenth Century France, under the influence of his mentor at Cornell University, Carl L. Becker. Whereas Becker had claimed that the "enlightened" French philosophes were more indebted to Christianity than they recognized,...
