The memory hole
Subtitle: the U.S. history curriculum under siege
By: by Fritz Fischer, University of Northern Colorado
Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Charlotte, NC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781623965327; 9781623965334; 9781623965341
Subjects: Historiography; History; Study and teaching; Curriculum planning; Education; Curricula
Description: The Memory Hole examines five central topics in the US history curriculum, showing how anti-historians of both the left and right seek to distort these topics and insert a refashioned story in America's classrooms. Ignoring facts, refashioning other facts and pretending that there are no rules in the telling of history, these re-interpreters of the past place the minds of America's young people in danger.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-155)
Table of contents: title: Evangelical Christianity, the founding fathers, and the nation's schools; title: Robber barons and raw deals in the classroom; title: The misuse of American exceptionalism; title: Teaching America's "golden age"; title: Anti-historians of the left; title: Teaching Ronald Reagan.