Power and Authority in the Modern World: 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

Jonathon Dallimore currently works as the Professional Officer for the History Teachers' Association of NSW. He is author of numerous Modern and Extension History texts for a range of publishers and teaches history methods at the University of NSW and the University of Wollongong.

Brad Kelly has a broad repertoire of experience that encompasses fifteen years of classroom and school executive experience, teacher professional learning and writing for business, educators, and students.

Robert Loeffel has been a Modern History teacher for nearly 20 years. He has published widely on Nazi Germany and World War II in research and textbook formats. He has also taught history at a tertiary level and has appeared on several History Channel documentaries. He lives in Sydney with his wife and children.

Michael Spurr has extensive experience in teacher professional learning, tertiary and secondary history education, and as a publisher of education resources.