Part 3 (1/2)
General history or ancient history received allish history was soan the practice of requiring history for adrew out of the study of geography, and became a separate study about 1845
(_j_) Until about 1893 the only course given really serious attention in the high school was that of Ancient History in the classical course The courses in General History, English History and American History were, for the most part, bookish, superficial, and devitalized
(_k_) The Madison Conference (instituted by the N E A in 1892) gave the first concerted impetus to the serious study of history in American public schools
(_l_) The Report of the Committee of Ten of the N E A in 1893 contains extensive and alanization, study, and presentation of history in the schools
(_m_) The Report of the Committee of Seven of the American Historical association in 1896 supplemented the contemporary efforts at reform
(_n_) The Report of the Committee of Five of the American Historical association in 1907 e to further i
(_o_) The Coht to perfect the art of studying and teaching the subject
VII _Values and Aiical
(_a_) It develops the power of constructive i of scenes, events, and characters, and the effort to put oneself back into the past
(_b_) It trains the reasoning faculty through the necessity of analyzing data, seeking causes and effects, and following historical development wherever it may lead
(_c_) It develops the power of associativefacts into their essential and definite relations
(_d_) It trains the judg
(1) The probability of the fact recorded
(2) The possibility and probability of accurate state the event
(3) The efficiency of the adjusthteousness of the act
(5) The motives and ideals that dominated the act
(_e_) It develops the power of co attention to sients, means, processes, events, places, dates, and results
(_f_) It develops the power of classification--of coordinating and subordinating data
(_g_) It develops the habit of forives a real conception of the h the considerations of ives ability to take a large view of life's affairs and interests,--to see things in their essential relations
2 Social, Political, and Civic