Pausanias as historian in Winckelmann's History

The Role of History, Historiography and Historian in Nation Building

Some scholars outside historical scholarship view history as a past, that only has relevance when it is needed or ‘past’ that should totally be forgotten. Such people see these academic disciplines as archaic if not completely useless. Others hold it in low esteem. This may not only be seen as misconception of history, as a process and discipline, it has as well affected the unity, progress, pe...

PAUSANIAS: Final activity report

Search engines, such as Google and Yahoo!, provide efficient retrieval and ranking of web pages based on queries consisting of a set of given keywords. Recent studies show that 20% of all Web queries also have location constraints, i.e., also refer to the location of a geotagged web page. An increasing number of applications support location-based keyword search, including Google Maps, Bing Map...

Paolo Sylos Labini as a historian of economics

Reading Like a Historian: A Document-Based History Curriculum Intervention in Urban High Schools

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Reading like a historian: a document-based history curriculum intervention with adolescent struggling readers

Adolescent literacy has captured the attention of policy makers in the United States as evidence has emerged of students’ poor performance compared to many other nations (UNESCO Institute for Statistics, 2003, 2007). As one response, school districts across the United States have been cutting social studies classes and extending Language Arts classes in an effort to raise literacy scores. This ...