...Gretchen Hohmeyer; Kristy Brugar; Annie M. Whitlock Purpose The purpose of this article is to help educators understand the affordances of backmatter in historical fiction to facilitate more engaged history/social studies experiences for young readers. Since backmatter often includes important...

...Lin Gou; Eun Hye Son; Daibao Guo Purpose We conducted a content analysis on nine historical fiction books representing Chinese history to examine character traits in relation to the historical events and genders. Design/methodology/approach We employed content analysis as the research approach...

...Kristy A. Brugar; Annie McMahon Whitlock Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how and why teachers use historical fiction in their classroom (e.g. selection and instruction) through the lenses of their pedagogical content knowledge (Shulman, 1986) and pedagogical tools (Grossman et...

...James S. Damico; Mark Baildon; Daniel Greenstone This paper begins by framing the concept of historical agency as a complex relationship between structural forces and individual actions. We then describe general features of historical fiction and consider ways of using this type of text...