"Child-Sized History - How Young ReadersAre Taught To Conceptualize History"

Guest: Sara Schwebel

Sara Schwebel believes employing historical novels in the classroom can help students understand the ways in

which our past can have relevance to our present. Unlike textbooks, which are replaced on regular cycles and

subjected to constant politicking, Schwebel explains to Allen and our listeners how these works can capture a

range of interpretive voices across time and place, a kind of "people's history" far removed from today's

state-sanctioned textbooks.