Molding the Good Citizen: The Politics of High School History Texts

by Stanley Rothman

Book Overview

A series of culture wars are being fought in America today; Lerner, Nagai, and Rothman contend that one key battleground is the nation's high school texts. The authors argue that today's textbook controversies, as exemplified in the proposed National Standards for the Study of United States and World History, reflect changes in American public philosophy and the education profession. Conventional wisdom among students of the curriculum is that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275949192
• ISBN13: 9780275949198
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"