History Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject of widespread attention when it was first published in 2004 including a full front-page review in the Washington Post Book World and features on NPR s Talk of the Nation and the History Channel this book gives us a glimpse into classrooms across the globe, where opinions about the United States are first formed.
Heralded as timely and important (History News Network) and shocking and fascinating (New York...
History Lessons offers a lighthearted and fascinating challenge to the biases we bring to our understanding of American history. The subject...
In this thought-provoking study (Library Journal ), historian Kyle Ward the widely acclaimed co-author of History Lessons gives us another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we learn about our history. Juxtaposing passages from U.S. history textbooks from different eras, History in the Making provides us with intriguing new perspectives on familiar historical events and the ways in which they have been represented over time.
The hardcover edition of History in the Making struck a chord among readers of popular history, and Ward was featured...
In this thought-provoking study (Library Journal ), historian Kyle Ward the widely acclaimed co-author of History Lessons gives us an...
Looking at the different ways textbooks from different eras present the same historical events, Not Written in Stone offers an abridged and annotated version of Kyle Ward s celebrated History in the Making specifically designed for classroom use. In each section, Ward provides an overview, questions for discussions and analysis, and then a fascinating chronological sampling of textbook excerpts that reveal the fascinating differences between different textbooks over time. Topics covered include: Images of Native Americans, Columbus First Voyage, Pocahontas and Captain John...
Looking at the different ways textbooks from different eras present the same historical events, Not Written in Stone offers an abridged and ann...
