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A local college professor comes to Ella Mentry School to help students learn basic history and improve their scores on a standardized test, using some very unusual techniques.

The author "explains what the study of history entails, how it has been approached over the centuries, and why it should be undertaken by today's students."--Page 4 of cover

Since 1976 newcomers and natives alike have learned about the rich history of the magnificent place they call home from Colorado: A History of the Centennial State. In this revised edition, co-authors Carl Abbott, Stephen J. Leonard, and Thomas J. Noel incorporate more than a decade of new events, findings, and insights about Colorado in an accessible volume that general readers and students will enjoy. The fourth edition tells of conflicts, new alliances,...

In his compact, brilliant, and compulsively readable account, Richard J. Evans shows us how historians manage to extract meaning from the recalcitrant past. To materials that are frustratingly meager, or overwhelmingly profuse, they bring an array of tools that range from agreed-upon rules of documentation to the critical application of social and economic theory, all employed with the aim of reconstructing a verifiable, usable past. Evans defends...

Surveys the history of Colorado from the time the Rocky Mountains were formed through the 20th century and beyond providing a variety of related activities.

Refutes Afrocentrist claims that historical figures like Socrates and Cleopatra were black, and that the ancient Greek philosophers stole their ideas from the Egyptians, discussing the lack of evidence to support what the author calls the myths about ancient history, and looking at where the ideas originated, and why they are being perpetuated in schools and throughout society.