History Repeating Itself: The Republication of Children's Historical Literature and the Christian Right

by Gregory M. Pfitzer

Book Overview

Recently publishers on the Christian Right have been reprinting nineteenth-century children's history books and marketing them to parents as "anchor texts" for homeschool instruction. Why, Gregory M. Pfitzer asks, would books written more than 150 years ago be presumed suitable for educating twenty-first-century children? The answer, he proposes, is that promoters of these recycled works believe that history as a discipline took a wrong turn...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625341245
• ISBN13: 9781625341242
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.5"