Author: Helen Snelson

  • Europeans were migrants too!

    Of course Europeans often still ARE migrants, but this blogpost is about a period in the past. Let me introduce you to the Historiana narrative European Migration to the USA. The narrative focuses on migration to the USA from Europe between the years 1845-1945. It has sections about: As a teacher you might want to…

  • Using Historiana to build a sense of what the world was like c.1900

    As history teachers we want our students to care about the people and events they learn about from the past. We want them to make a connection and to be interested with a world that is different from their own. If our students care about what they are learning about in history they are more…

  • Life in the 1950s

    This article is the twentieth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. Life in the 1950s is not…

  • Teaching about national personifications and their use as propaganda

    This article is the nineteenth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the series here. This blogpost develops further ideas for…

  • National Personifications

    This article is the eighteenth of an ongoing series from EuroClio providing teachers with ideas and practical resources for teaching a range of topics in their classrooms. You can find a wealth of additional resources including units, source collections and eLearning activities on the Historiana website and you can read the other articles in the…