In the March edition of "Social Education", March 1996, Vol. 60, No. 3,
it has a few articles, I believe dealing with your concern.

1.  "To Touch, To Feel, To See: Artifacts Inquiry in the Social Studies
Classroom," by Sheery L. Field, etc.  pp. 141- 143.  Has good references!
2.  "Using Schema Theory to Teach American History," Mac Duies, pp. 144-
146.
3.  "What U.S. Political History Reveals for Social Studies Education,"
Randy K. Mills, pp. 159-161/
4.  "Problem of Bias in History Textbooks," Michael H. Romanowksi.
5.  "The U.S. Civil War on the World Wide Web"  C. Frederick Risinger.

I suggest go into your search engines in the web, ask for "history"
"history, education," "Social Studies" -- there are great Webs sites
on history.  If you cannot find them, get back to me and I'll check
my files.  For example, http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013 --- is for
developing Social Studies Lesson plans and resources.  http://execpc.
com/~dboals/k-12.ntml is for k-12 Soruces: Curriculum and Lesson Plans.

I hope this is of help.

John Martinson
Fort Walla Walla Museum


At 05:49 PM 4/29/96 -0400, you wrote:
>I am looking for information about the standards for teaching U.S. history
>and how these standards may impact museum education.  I have plenty of
>information about the standards themselves, but is anyone implementing them
>or taking them into consideration in planning future ed. programs?  I am
>working on a session on this topic for an upcoming workshop.  If anyone has
>done work on this or can suggest references I would appreciate it.
>
>Thanks!!!
>
>