L. Hilton and A. Patt, "Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust" (U Wisconsin Press, 2020)
I wish I had seen Laura Hilton and Avinoam Patt's\xa0Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust\xa0(University of Wisconsin Press, 2020) six months ago.\xa0I taught a course in the fall titled "The Holocaust and its Legacies."\xa0It's a course I've taught several times.\xa0It's a good course, co-taught with Professor of Theology. But it's a course that would have been better if I had read this book the summer before I taught it.\nLaura HIlton and Avinoam Patt have collected a series of essays designed specifically for high school and university level instructors who teach the Holocaust.\xa0Some of them aim to bring teachers up to speed on the most recent research about specific areas of the subject.\xa0Others look at specific kinds of sources and offer advice on how teachers might use them in the classroom.\xa0Some of them offer new interpretations, others cover well-established material concisely and effectively.\xa0Depending on their own backgrounds and interests, teachers will find some of these essays more valuable than others.\xa0\xa0But every teacher will emerge from this book having learned something new and having new ideas about how to communicate their subject and their passions to their students.\nKelly McFall is Professor of History and Director of the Honors Program at Newman University.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/genocide-studies