Teaching History with Newsreels and Public Service Shorts

This volume serves as a guide for teaching history with newsreels and short subject nonfiction films. In addition to introducing teachers of history to the wide range of short films available for classroom use, this volume provides sample lesson plans, assessment activities, and discussion guides.

Aaron Gulyas is associate professor of history at Mott Community College and also serves as a faculty technology consultant for the college's Center for Teaching and Learning. He is the author of Extraterrestrials and the American Zeitgeist: Alien Contact Tales since the 1950s (2013) and The Paranormal and the Paranoid: Conspiratorial Science Fiction (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015).