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Samuel S. Wineburg (born 1958) is an American educational and cognitive psychologist. He is the Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and, by courtesy, of History & American Studies emeritus at Stanford University. Since the 1990s, Wineburg has been a leading figure in research on historical thinking and the teaching and learning of history.
Historical thinking is a set of critical literacy skills for evaluating and analyzing primary source documents to construct a meaningful account of the past. Sometimes called historical reasoning skills, historical thinking skills are frequently described in contrast to historical content knowledge such as names, dates, and places.
Before the establishment of Shaker Heights, Ohio, the brothers were land and building speculators in Cleveland, Ohio. [1] In 1909, the Van Sweringen brothers began exercising options on 1,399 acres (5.7 km 2) of land formerly owned by the North Union Community of the Society of Believers, better known as the Shakers.
The 49th Kips Bay Decorator Show House New York has once again opened its doors to the public. This year, 24 designers and architects have overtaken a five-story 1904 neo-Georgian townhouse at 125 ...
Pick-N-Pay Supermarkets was a chain of supermarkets which operated in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio area. The company's origin can be traced to the year 1928 and the opening of a small dairy store in Cleveland Heights, Ohio by Edward Silverberg who then expanded his operation and created a chain of such stores which he called Farmview Creamery Stores.
The Fairmount Boulevard District is a 130-acre (53 ha) historic district in Cleveland Heights, Ohio that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. [ 1 ] The district is a cohesive area of upper-income suburban development dating from the World War I era.
Calhoun intended Euclid Heights to be a New England–style upper-income community of Protestants of Anglo-Saxon heritage. By 1892 the road was identified as Coventry Road in George F. Cram & Company's atlas of that year. The part of East Cleveland Township now known as Cleveland Heights became a hamlet in 1901, and then a village in 1903.
The Col. Joseph Ellis House is located at 1009 Sycamore Street in Haddon Heights, Camden County, New Jersey, United States.The house was built in 1760, and was the dwelling of Revolutionary War hero Colonel Joseph Ellis.