Molding the Good Citizen: The Politics of High School History Texts » (1st Edition)

ROBERT LERNER is a Center Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change at Smith College.

ALTHEA K. NAGAI is a Center Fellow at the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change at Smith College.

STANLEY ROTHMAN is Director of the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change at Smith College. Among their earlier collaborative works is Giving for Social Change: Foundations, Public Policy, and the American Political Agenda (Praeger, 1994).

An examination of the culture wars being fought in and over America's history textbooks.

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Based upon findings from a study analyzing content of high school American history textbooks from the 1940s to the mid- 1980s, the author describes the changes that have taken place in recent decades, analyzing in particular the reasons for these changes in the broader context of the transformation of public education in the United States. Appendices describe the methodology, list the textbooks used in the study, and outline the coding scheme for content analysis of the texts. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)