Campus Units
History
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2010
Journal or Book Title
Teaching History
Volume
35
Issue
1
First Page
12
Last Page
22
Abstract
Cultivating historical imagination in undergraduate students is often a difficult task. The distance between their lives, generally lived in the last quarter century, and the ways in which people lived i the pre-World War II period can be enormous. The task becomes even more difficult when students think that certain elements of their lives in the present are much more similar to those of previous eras than they actually are. Case in point is the Great Depression. Given the current economic downturn, many students are convinced that, in some ways, they are living in a situation akin to that of the 1930s.
Copyright Owner
Teaching History
Copyright Date
2010
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Riney-Kehrberg, Pamela, "Building Historical Imagination with Three Potato, Two Carrots, and One Onion" (2010). History Publications. 69.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/history_pubs/69
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Comments
This article is published as 2010 “Building Historical Imagination with Three Potatoes, a Carrot and an Onion.” Teaching History, 35, 1 (Spring 2010): 12‐22. Posted with permission.