Publications
The publications of the Goldberg Center use digital technology to provide teaching and learning materials to history teachers across the country.
Retrieving the American Past: Retrieving the American Past is the first on-demand, electronic database-driven, customized U.S. history textbook. RTAP is now the best selling reader of its kind on the national market.
Exploring the European Past:
Exploring the European Past is a "second generation" customized textbook designed to captivate imaginations and enhance the classroom experiences of students in Western Civilization/European History classes. The problem-based modules encourage students to read carefully, to think critically about both textual and visual sources, to evaluate the interpretations of others, and to synthesize information drawn from a variety of sources, including maps, works of art, sound clips, photographs and architecture.
Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective:
Origins is a monthly on-line news magazine published by the Public History Initiative and eHistory. In each issue of Origins, an historian analyzes a particular current issue - political, cultural, or social - in a larger, deeper historical context. In addition to the analysis provided by each month's feature, Origins includes images, maps, graphs and other material to compliment the essay. Origins helps readers understand the world more fully, and prompts them to think, debate, and learn, making us all more informed and engaged citizens.
Origins is aimed at a general readership, but is especially targeted to teachers, both as a classroom resource and as vehicle for their own professional development.
This month in Origins (vol.3 issue 3):
1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe
by Theodora Dragostinova
For those in the former Soviet Bloc, 1989 has been called an annus mirabilis -- a year of miracles. With astonishing speed, communist rule ended in Eastern Europe, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, and the nature of Europe was changed entirely. In 2009, those countries, from Germany to Bulgaria to Poland, have all mounted celebrations of the twentieth anniversary of this hope-filled year. Yet, two decades after the collapse of communism, many in those countries found themselves unsure of what, precisely, they were celebrating. Did 1989 really mark a moment of out-with-the-old-and-in-with-the-new, and how much had really changed in the intervening years? This month historian Theodora Dragostinova explores the impact of 1989 on the region and the legacy of history in today's Eastern Europe.
