Publications/Links

One of the best publications on this topic is
A Teacher's Guide to Learning from Objects by Gail Durbin, Susan Morris, and Sue
Wilkinson. Some of the information in this section on teaching with objects was taken from this publication with the permission of the publisher, English Heritage.  We are grateful for their cooperation.

For information on this guide and other 
excellent  teaching materials, visit the English Heritage web site.

Also see these publications:

Deetz, James.  In Small Things Forgotten:  The Archaeology of Early American Life.  Garden City, NY: Anchor Press, Doubleday, 1977.

Fleming, E. McClung.  "Artifact Study: A Proposed Model," Winterthur Portfolio IX (1975), pp. 153-173.

Kyvig, David E. and Myron A. Marty.  Nearby History.  Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1982.

Johnson, Mary.  "What's in a Butterhcurn or a Sadiron?  Some Thoughts on Using Artifacts in Social History."  The Public Historian 5 (Winter 1983): 61-81.

Schlereth, Thomas J.  Artifacts and the American Past.  Nashville, TN: American Association for State and Local History, 1980.

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