Loewen, Chapter 10: The Disappearance of the Recent Past

                                                         Down The Memory Hole

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Big Question: 
How effective is it to use the sasha and zamani terms in my classroom to teach historical perspective and to explain the dilemma of teaching history in the modern age? 


Website: This website is an outline of a history course that is taught backwards, from the present to 1850s! It encourages students to understand material that relates to them and then build upon that to understand how the past is related. I really like this concept and would like to use it in my classroom. 

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