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This book closely examines the pedagogical possibilities of integrating the arts into history curriculum at the secondary and post-secondary levels. Students encounter expressions of history every day in the form of fiction, paintings, and commemorative art, as well as other art forms. Research demonstrates it is often these more informal encounters with history that define students' knowledge and understandings rather than the official accounts present in school curricula. This volume will provide educators with tools to bring together these parallel tracks of history education to help enrich students' understandings and as a mechanism for students to present their own emerging historical perspectives.

The Arts and the Teaching of History: Historical F(r)ictions

1. The Place of the Arts in Teaching History2 Five Scholarly Conversations Related to History, History Education, and the Arts3. Historical Fiction and History Education4. Beyond Adornment: Visual Art as Source and Account in History Classrooms and Public Spaces5. Points of Coverage: Public Commemorative Art and the Teaching of History6. Engaging the Fray: Preparing Teachers and Students for Critical Encounters with the Past7. The Humanizing and Civic Missions of History Education