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What do history texts really teach us?

Title
What do history texts really teach us? [Sound recording]
Author
FitzGerald, Frances, 1940-

Details

Additional Authors
Burke, Joan Martin.
Description
1 cassette (20 min.); 2 1/2 x 4 in.
Summary
In an interview with CBS News, author Frances Fitzgerald discusses her study of American history textbooks. These books, she says, reflect what Americans what to teach their children rather than what actually happened. She feels that we teach children history as a way of teaching them how to behave.
Series Statement
Vital history cassettes, Oct. '79, no. 3
Uniform Title
Vital history cassettes ; Oct. 79, no. 3.
Subject
  • Education > Social aspects > United States
  • History > Textbooks
Note
  • Distributed by Grolier Educational Corp., Danbury, Conn.