Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. — 370 p.
Introduction: Understanding Historical Understanding
Why study history?Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts
The Psychology of Teaching and Learning History
Challenges for the studentOn the Reading of Historical Texts: Notes on the Breach Between School and Academy
Reading Abraham Lincoln: A case Study in Contextualized Thinking
Picturing the Past
Challenges for the teacherPeering at History Through Different Lenses: The Role of Disciplinary Perspectives in Teaching History
Models of Wisdom in the Teaching of History
Wrinkles in Time and Place: Using Performance Assessments to Understand the Knowledge of History Teachers
History as national memoryLost in Words: Moral Ambiguity in the History Classroom
Making (Historical) Sense in the New Millennium