Mixing the New History with the Old.

This article addresses how to integrate social history with political history to create today's U.S. history curriculum that will satisfy new U.S. citizens' need to receive instruction in their own ethnic past. One approach is to present U.S. history as a history of social relations among various ethnic groups and to stress the common legacy of events that has changed the lives of people. However, these events have affected ethnic populations differently, so the problem lies in how to equalize social and political history instruction. The curriculum should stress how these political events affected the various groups' lives and futures. Attention to the infusion of social and political history into the curriculum will keep history accurate and specific. (DJC) ********************************************X************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * * from the original document. * ************************************************************.a******** MIXING THE NEW HISTORY WITH THE OLD