Judith P. Zinsser

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Essays


ANALYTICAL ESSAYS

  • “Women’s History/Feminist History,” A Handbook of Historical Theory eds. Sarah Foot and Nancy Partner (Sage Publications, forthcoming 2008)
  • “Emile Du Châtelet and the Historians” for the exhibition catalogue, “Emilie Du Châtelet: une Femme dans tous les états,” ( Paris: Bibliothèque nationale, forthcoming, 2006)
  • "Gender," Palgrave Guide to World Histories (UK: Palgrave, 2005)
  • "Encounters with Biographers," Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice (Routledge Press, 2003)
  • "Revolutions, Women and Historians," Glimpses of Russian History, eds. A.O. Boronoev and E.R. Olkhovsky (St. Petersburg, Russia: St. Petersburg State University Press, 2001): 429-36
  • "Gender: Changing Definitions over Time and Place" History Resource Center: The Modern World (Gayle Group, online database, 2001)
  • "Technology and History, the Women's Perspective: A Case Study in Gendered Definitions," The World History Teacher: Essential Writings in a Growing Field, ed. Ross E. Dunn (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999): 462-70
  • "History: Measuring Impact," Women in the Curriculum: Rethinking the Disciplines (Baltimore MD: National Center for Curriculum Transformation, 1997): 40-51
  • "'Much more is at stake here.' Response to 'The Construction of History'" by Martin Bunzl, Journal of Women's History 9 (Autumn 1997): 132-39
  • "Real History, Real Education, Real Merit, or Why is 'Forrest Gump' So Popular?" Journal of Social History Special Issue (Fall 1995): 91-97
  • "Rethinking the Discipline of History: Measuring Impact," Seminar on Scholarship and Curriculum: The Study of Gender, Race, Ethnicity, and Class (New York: The City University of New York Academy for the Humanities and Sciences, 1994): 35-43
  • "Allies" [for the special issue on "Time"], Bryn Mawr Alumnae Bulletin LXX (Fall 1988)

REVIEW ESSAYS

  • "The Ultimate Commentary: A Consideration of I. Bernard Cohen's 'Guide to Newton's Principia,'" Notes and Records of the Royal Society (May 2003)
  • Bonnie G. Smith, "The Gender of History: Men, Women and Historical Practice," Nineteenth-Century Prose 28 (Spring, 2001):132-136
  • "Women's History, World History and the Construction of New Narratives," Journal of Women's History 12 (Autumn, 2000): 196-206
  • "Encyclopedias of Women's World History," World History Association Bulletin XV (Fall, 1999): iv-vi.

ESSAYS ON TEACHING

  • "The World History Association: Teaching as an International Movement," The History Teacher 31 (February 1998): 259-63
  • "And now for something completely different: gendering the world history survey," AHA Perspectives 34 (May/June 1996): 11-12 [reprinted in The World History Teacher: Essential Writings in a Growing Field, ed. Ross E. Dunn (New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999)]
  • "The United Nations Decade for Women: A Quiet Revolution," The History Teacher 24 (November 1990): 19-29.Reprinted in Contact: Journal of the International Baccalaureate Schools 1 (October 1990) [Trieste, Italy]
  • "Following the Curriculum-A Comfort or a Constraint?" New Teachers Handbook Impact II [distributed by the New York City Board of Education, 1988]: 18-21
  • "Nationalism and History Education: A New Framework for World History," The History Teacher 12 (Nov. 1978): 37-43 [reprinted in The International Schools Journal 1 (Spring 1981): 27-31 [Geneva, Switzerland]
  • "World History at the United Nations International School," AHA Newsletter 15 (May/June 1977): 5-6 [reprinted in Kleio, journal of the Instituut voor Geschiedenis, Utrecht, The Netherlands (August 1977) and in The New Era 60 (September/October 1979), London: 178-181]
  • "On teaching human rights," International Schools Association Bulletin 82 (May 1977): 143-144 [London, UK] [reprinted in UNESCO's International Understanding at School 33: 32-33