Not written in stone
Subtitle: learning and unlearning American history through 200 years of textbooks
By: Kyle Ward.
Publisher: The New Press; New Press, The; New Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781595581440
Subjects: United States -- History -- Textbooks; United States -- History -- Textbooks -- Evaluation; United States -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Images of Native Americans; title: Columbus' first voyage; title: Pocahontas and Captain John Smith; title: Anne Hutchinson; title: The Pequot War; title: The Salem witch trials; title: The Boston Massacre; title: Lexington and Concord; title: The Battle of Trenton; title: George Rogers Clark; title: Women in the American Revolution; title: Shays' Rebellion; title: The Barbary pirates; title: Sacagawea; title: Tecumseh; title: The Monroe Doctrine; title: The Alamo; title: The Trail of Tears; title: The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848; title: The Mormons; title: Dred Scott; title: Slavery; title: African American soldiers; title: African Americans during Reconstruction; title: Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike; title: Wounded Knee massacre; title: Immigration; title: McKinley assassination; title: The Philippine-American War.