History Of American Schoolbooks

Author : Charles Carpenter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781512801187

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History of American Schoolbooks by Charles Carpenter Pdf

The lineage of American schoolbooks, like that of our educational system, goes back to Europe and, particularly, to England. The first schoolbooks used in the United States were printed in England and for two hundred years a great influx of books came from sources outside this country. However, with the break from England and the emergence of the United States as a nation, text book publishing came into being in America. This book presents a general portrayal of American textbooks, and along with this, as a requisite accompaniment, a picture of the pioneer-day school system insofar as it had to do with production and early usage of schoolbooks. The author shows how the first textbooks came to be, tells of textbook writers, and traces through the bulk of the material presented the changes that most of the textbook authors brought about. The types of books discussed include the New England primers as well as other types of primers; readers, specially the McGuffey readers; rhetoric and foreign language books; arithmetics; spelling books; literature texts; elocution texts; handwriting and copy books; histories; and many other books that made our school systems what they are today. Besides being a study of the textbook field in America, History of American Schoolbooks is also a history of the United States as reflected in the type of teaching and instructional aids used to educate Americans. A study of this subject is by no means just an interesting side trip into America's past. Many of the books are still influential, and many of the old methods are staging a come­back in the educational field, History of American Schoolbooks should be of interest to educators and historians, as well as teachers, librarians, book collectors, publishers, and general readers who are interested in the evolution and growth of a segment of education and educational publishing that is one of the most important and vital in our country.

Author : Charles Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Textbooks
ISBN : OCLC:220132354

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History of American Schoolbooks by Charles Carpenter Pdf

Author : Charles H. Carpenter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:633603061

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History of American Schoolbooks by Charles H. Carpenter Pdf

Author : Frances FitzGerald
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015009399166

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America Revised by Frances FitzGerald Pdf

"Almost all of the book appeared initially in the New Yorker." Bibliography: p. [227]-240.

Author : Joseph Moreau
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780472030538

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Schoolbook Nation by Joseph Moreau Pdf

In an ambitious survey of the nation's history textbooks, the author looks back on 150 years of history instruction in America, tackling 100 primary texts used to instruct, inform, propagandize, and deceive the nation's youth throughout the nation's short life-span. (Education)

Author : P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1738998436

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U.S. History by P. Scott Corbett,Volker Janssen,John M. Lund Pdf

Printed in color. U.S. History is designed to meet the scope and sequence requirements of most introductory courses. The text provides a balanced approach to U.S. history, considering the people, events, and ideas that have shaped the United States from both the top down (politics, economics, diplomacy) and bottom up (eyewitness accounts, lived experience). U.S. History covers key forces that form the American experience, with particular attention to issues of race, class, and gender.

Author : Donald Yacovone
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780593467169

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Teaching White Supremacy by Donald Yacovone Pdf

A powerful exploration of the past and present arc of America’s white supremacy—from the country’s inception and Revolutionary years to its 19th century flashpoint of civil war; to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter. “The most profoundly original cultural history in recent memory.” —Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard University “Stunning, timely . . . an achievement in writing public history . . . Teaching White Supremacy should be read widely in our roiling debate over how to teach about race and slavery in classrooms." —David W. Blight, Sterling Professor of American History, Yale University; author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom Donald Yacovone shows us the clear and damning evidence of white supremacy’s deep-seated roots in our nation’s educational system through a fascinating, in-depth examination of America’s wide assortment of texts, from primary readers to college textbooks, from popular histories to the most influential academic scholarship. Sifting through a wealth of materials from the colonial era to today, Yacovone reveals the systematic ways in which this ideology has infiltrated all aspects of American culture and how it has been at the heart of our collective national identity. Yacovone lays out the arc of America’s white supremacy from the country’s inception and Revolutionary War years to its nineteenth-century flashpoint of civil war to the civil rights movement of the 1960s and today’s Black Lives Matter. In a stunning reappraisal, the author argues that it is the North, not the South, that bears the greater responsibility for creating the dominant strain of race theory, which has been inculcated throughout the culture and in school textbooks that restricted and repressed African Americans and other minorities, even as Northerners blamed the South for its legacy of slavery, segregation, and racial injustice. A major assessment of how we got to where we are today, of how white supremacy has suffused every area of American learning, from literature and science to religion, medicine, and law, and why this kind of thinking has so insidiously endured for more than three centuries.

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780743296281

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Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Pdf

Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.

Author : Dana Lindaman,Kyle Ward
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2006-07-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595585752

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History Lessons by Dana Lindaman,Kyle Ward Pdf

A “fascinating” look at what students in Russia, France, Iran, and other nations are taught about America (The New York Times Book Review). This “timely and important” book (History News Network) gives us a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed. History Lessons includes selections from textbooks and teaching materials used in Russia, France, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Canada, and others, covering such events as the American Revolution, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Iran hostage crisis, and the Korean War—providing some alternative viewpoints on the history of the United States from the time of the Viking explorers to the post-Cold War era. By juxtaposing starkly contrasting versions of the historical events we take for granted, History Lessons affords us a sometimes hilarious, often sobering look at what the world thinks about America’s past. “A brilliant idea.” —Foreign Affairs

Author : Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.,Annis N. Shaver,Manuel Bello
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136860645

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The Textbook as Discourse by Eugene F. Provenzo, Jr.,Annis N. Shaver,Manuel Bello Pdf

The central assumption of The Textbook as Discourse is this: interpreted in the flow of history, textbooks can provide important insights into the nature and meaning of a culture and the social and political discourses in which it is engaged. This book is about the social, political and cultural content of elementary and secondary textbooks in American education. It focuses on the nature of the discourses—the content and context—that represent what is included in textbooks. The term "discourse" provides the conceptual framework for the book, drawing on the work of the French social theorist Michel Foucault. The volume includes classic articles and book chapters as well as three original chapters written by the editors. To enhance its usefulness as a course text, each chapter includes an Overview, Key Concepts, and Questions for Reflection.

Author : American Textbook Council
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000042013833

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History Textbooks by American Textbook Council Pdf

Based on expert review and research, this book provides an innovative standard and guide to social studies textbooks used in kindergarten through 12th grade classrooms for content, style, and design. The standards provide a foundation for individuals to select satisfactory textbooks and to help educators and school boards in the adoption of instructional materials. Chapter 1 addresses the problems of textbook content and style. Chapter 2 discusses the vast business of social studies publishing and the increased complexity of textbook packaging with the movement away from state-level adoption of textbooks. Chapter 3 focuses on the content of social studies textbooks with a comparison of past and present textbooks, a discussion of revisionism and reality, and a look at religion in textbooks. Chapter 4 examines the style and story of textbooks and finds that although the content of past textbooks may be flawed, the prose is superior to recent textbooks. Ideas on narrative, readability, vocabulary, instructional design, history, and style provide ways for textbooks to improve. Chapter 5 addresses the issue of format and proposes clarity and simplicity in technical design of books. Chapter 6 provides an outline to review textbooks for content and style and instructional activities and teacher guidance materials for usefulness. Chapter 7 includes an annotated list of the major U.S. and world history textbooks. (CK)

Author : John Bach McMaster
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105049341840

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A School History of the United States by John Bach McMaster Pdf

Things unknown in 1763.--Had a traveler landed on our shores in 1763 and made a journey through the English colonies in America, he would have seen a country utterly unlike the United States of today. The entire population, white man and black, freeman and slave, was not so great as that of New York or Philadelphia or Chicago in our time. If we were to write a list of all the things we now consider as real necessaries of daily life and mark off those unknown to the men of 1763, not one quarter would remain. No man in the country had ever seen a stove, or a furnace, or a friction match, or an envelope, or a piece of mineral coal. From the farmer we should have to take the reaper, the drill, the mowing machine, and every kind of improved rake and plow, and give him back the scythe, the cradle, and the flail.

Author : Charles Welsh
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1019579625

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English History in American School Text-books by Charles Welsh Pdf

This eye-opening book explores the ways in which American school textbooks have portrayed English history over the years. From the earliest colonial period to the modern day, Welsh examines the biases, distortions, and outright inaccuracies that have been perpetuated by textbooks and other educational materials. With a focus on critical thinking and awareness of historical context, this book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in how history is taught and remembered. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : United States. Department of Education. Educational Research Library,Dolly Svobodny
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : NYPL:33433050665763

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Early American Textbooks, 1775-1900 by United States. Department of Education. Educational Research Library,Dolly Svobodny Pdf

Author : James W. Loewen
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807759486

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Teaching What Really Happened by James W. Loewen Pdf

“Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.