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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen that critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks. [1] In the book, Loewen concludes that the textbook authors propagate false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of American history. In addition to his ...
American History: A Survey is organized in a way that reflects a high school-level U.S. history course. The chapters follow the nation's history chronologically. In the preface to the book, Brinkley states his purpose is "to be a thorough, balanced, and versatile account of America's past that instructors and students will find accessible and appropriate no matter what approach to the past a ...
The four versions of the Twelfth Edition are the Complete Edition, the version "For Advanced High School Courses," published by Houghton Mifflin. There are also two editions that split the textbook into two volumes: Volume I, which covers American history up to 1877, and Volume II, which covers the American history since 1865.
Journal of American History. 100 (4): 1139– 1169. doi: 10.1093/jahist/jau008. Chiappetta, Eugene L., and David A. Fillman. "Analysis of five high school biology textbooks used in the United States for inclusion of the nature of science." International Journal of Science Education (2007) 29#15 pp: 1847–1868.
Women’s History Month is a reminder that women’s stories in US history should be fully integrated into the national narrative, beginning in high school classrooms, writes Elena Sheppard.
A People's History of the United States: Volume 1: American Beginnings to Reconstruction, Teaching Edition; A People's History of the United States, Vol. 2: The Civil War to the Present, Teaching Edition; A People's History of the United States: The Wall Charts; designed by Howard Zinn and George Kirschner; New Press (2007). ISBN 978-1-56584-171-0
Segregation laws in the United States prior to Brown v. Board of Education. For much of its history, education in the United States was segregated (or even only available) based upon race. Early integrated schools such as the Noyes Academy, founded in 1835, in Canaan, New Hampshire, often were met with fierce local opposition.
Graff is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, primarily on topics in American history, including several widely used text books. His first book was Bluejackets with Perry in Japan, published by the New York Public Library in 1952. With legendary historian and professorial colleague Jacques Barzun, Graff co-authored The Modern ...