Pompeii and Herculaneum: Investigating and Interpreting the Sources

Pompeii and Herculaneum: Investigating and Interpreting the Sources and Power and Authority in the Modern World: Investigating and Interpreting the Sources are textbooks for senior secondary history students.

Students engage with secondary literature as they investigate and interpret the sources.

The learning activities encourage students to enact the historical skills of analysis and use sources, interpretation, investigation and research, and explain and communicate historical findings.

Students, like historians, will use the historical concepts of continuity and change, perspectives, significance, causation, and contestability to interpret the past.

Key Features

• Accomplished author team
• Historical sources including speeches and writings, artworks and images, laws and treaties
• Historical interpretations include contemporary accounts and classic and current scholarly research in the fields
• Activities are tailored to the historical skills
• Source studies mirror exam styled questions
• Content consolidation activities scaffold students on the journey from remembering to evaluation and creation.

About the Authors

Stephen Clarke has taught Ancient and Modern History in NSW for over two decades. He is passionate about using the most useful and up-to-date information in his classes and has a particular interest in exploring how recent research in history can transform teaching.

Martin Garner is an Ancient, Modern and Extension History teacher at a Sydney High School and is passionate about creating resources that encourage students to work like professional historians.