![]() Historians may occasionally bemoan their lack of influence, but as my appraisal of our nation’s textbooks revealed, historians of the twentieth century exerted an enormous impact on the way modern Americans have come to understand their history. While the worst features of our textbook legacy have ended, as the recently published study (2018) by the Southern Poverty Law Center, Teaching Hard History: American Slavery shows, our schools are still ignoring the difficult issues raised by our past, and the themes, facts, and attitudes of supremacist ideologies remain embedded in our national identity, in what we teach, and in what we learn. This vast tectonic plate still underlies American culture and we ignore it at our peril. The assumptions of white priority and white domination suffuse every chapter and every theme of the thousands of textbooks that have blanketed the schools of our country. One text even began with the capitalized title: “The White Man’s History.” Across time and with precious few exceptions African Americans in these books appeared only as a problem, only as “ignorant negroes,” as slaves, and as anonymous abstractions that only posed “problems” for the real subjects of this written history: white people of European descent. This new project, Teaching White Supremacy: The Battle Over Race in American History Textbooks, for me is offering almost daily revelations.Īfter reviewing my first fifty or so textbooks, one morning I realized precisely what I was seeing, what instruction, and what priorities were leaping from the pages into the brains of the children compelled to read them: White Supremacy. Unintentionally, I am now engaged in a study of how abolitionism, race, slavery, and the Civil War and Reconstruction have been taught in our nation’s school books from the 1830s to the present. history textbooks, dating from about 1800 to the 1980s. Instead, I found myself immersed in the Gutman Library’s invaluable collection of nearly three thousand U.S. I imagined a quick look and then a deep plunge back into a series of manuscript collections for The Liberator’s Legacy. As part of that project, I wanted to determine how abolitionism had been presented in our school textbooks. Du Bois John Jay Chapman and William Monroe Trotter and the Boston African American community depended upon and employed the legacy of the antislavery movement to create the modern civil rights movement. I wished to look at how the Garrison children and grandchildren the founders of the NAACP like Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, and W.E.B. ![]() My project, The Liberator’s Legacy: Memory, Abolitionism, and the Struggle for Civil Rights, 1865–1965, aims at assessing the impact of William Lloyd Garrison and his antislavery colleagues, both black and white. The Sweet greasy 70's stuff.I began research in textbooks as part of a broader study of the legacy of the antislavery movement.You get nutty policies, like reducing fluoride in water. Vermont Town’s Water Guy Resigns After Fluoride Conspiracies Put a conspiracy nut in charge of public services and by golly look what happens.Now, the new James Webb Space Telescope has captured NASA's. See the James Webb Telescope’s New Image of the Pillars of Creation Nearly 30 years ago, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope captured the first image of the Pillars of Creation - the iconic star nursery featuring thick pillars of gas and dust. ![]() On a certain Isabel van Brugen, who writes about the Russia-Ukraine war for Newsweek, posted an item named "Putin Appointed 'Chief Exorcist' as Kremlin Whips up Satanic Panic" In it she claimed that "Patriarch Kirill, the head of. An Example of Putin “The Chief Exorcist”. ![]() As an LGF Associate! Featured Pages Click to refresh How Fake News Is Baked.
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