textbooks

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/19/2020
  

  Conservative Activists in Texas Have Shaped the History All American Children Learn

  by Rob Alex Fitt

  "Liberal groups such as People for the American Way were aghast at what was happening in Texas. They launched counter campaigns in the early 1970s to try to break conservative activists’ stranglehold on the textbook selection process, to no avail."

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• SOURCE: Skipped History
  10/15/2020
  

  How Mississippi Got Away with Teaching Racist History (Skipped History)

  It took litigation to drag Mississippi's history instruction out of the Lost Cause mythology. 

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  9/4/2020
  

  How Textbooks Taught White Supremacy

  "I came across one textbook that declared on its first page, “This is the White Man’s History.” At that point, you had to be a dunce not to see what these books were teaching."

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• SOURCE: NBC Chicago
  8/2/2020
  

  Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Halt History Classes Until Curriculum is Updated

  At a news conference, State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford said current history teachings lead to a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/23/2020
  

  This One Letter In A Textbook Could Change How Millions Of Kids Learn About Race

  Albert Broussard is a history professor and a textbook writer for McGraw Hill. Broussard plans to capitalize the b in Black in the most recent revision of a middle and high school history textbook.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/9/2020
  

  How a History Textbook Would Describe 2020 So Far

  by James West Davidson

  A historian imagines the chapter high schoolers might read one day about this momentous time.

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  5/27/2020
  

  All the History I Learned in my Youth Came from the American Girl Doll Books

  Learning about history can come from unexpected places. The information booklets sold with the author's dolls may have drawn on more historians' expertise than her school textbooks did. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  1/16/20
  

  How Political Divides Shape U.S. History Lessons

  Partisan politics are making their way into school textbooks, reports The New York Times. We dig into the report.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/13/20
  

  Historians Respond to NY Times Article on History Textbook Regional Differences

  Featuring Kevin Kruse and other educators. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/12/20
  

  Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories.

  American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/26/19
  

  How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery

  by Cynthia Greenlee

  Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/15/19
  

  Students and Parents Push for Better Textbooks to Help Fight Hate and Stereotypes

  Students, parents and educators are calling for material that reflects a diversity of experiences, saying it’s a matter of providing a fuller telling of history.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12-7-2018
  

  How to Teach the Civil War in the Deep South

  One veteran Mississippi teacher is forgoing textbooks for the local archives.

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• SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
  11-29-18
  

  Report: Quebec high school history textbooks are ‘fundamentally flawed’ and should be removed

  Students in the Grade 9 and 10 Canadian and Quebec history classes are being taught a “skewed, one-sided view of the past that distorts the historical record,” according to the committee report.

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• SOURCE: VOA News
  11-26-18
  

  Are US History Textbooks Obsolete?

  Stanford’s Sam Wineburg suggests that with the Internet there’s no reason for students to lug around big textbooks anymore.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11-16-18
  

  Texas Students Will Soon Learn Slavery Played A Central Role In The Civil War

  The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-20-18
  

  Leader of Texas Board that dropped Hillary Clinton explains their reasoning

  by Donna Bahorich

  She wrote an op ed for the WaPo. Here’s her explanation.

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• SOURCE: Dallas News
  9-16-18 (accessed)
  

  Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum

  As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies curriculum in public schools, the State Board of Education voted Friday to adjust what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8-7-18
  

  Study: American Kids Are Learning Islamophobia From Their Textbooks

  by Melissa Levinson

  "My research on world history textbooks used across the country finds that sections about Islam and the Middle East advance a “rise and fall” narrative."

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• 4-8-18
  

  I Wrote a Textbook. “Fox and Friends” Turned Me into a Villain.

  by James W. Fraser

  “I worry we could be entering a time in which students in some districts will read pro-Trump books and students in other districts will read anti-Trump books.”