tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post6898284015201711465..comments2024-03-28T02:46:03.227-04:00Comments on The Historical Society: Black Confederates, the Internet, and the Teaching of HistoryRandallhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-59974780480184103012010-11-10T09:54:28.353-05:002010-11-10T09:54:28.353-05:00My 16 year old daughter is doing a project in her ...My 16 year old daughter is doing a project in her history-ish 11th grade class, where she's been asked to "do" one of Ben Franklin's 13 virtues for a week. She went online and found a list, on a Tea-Party website. We checked, and the high school teacher had not recommended that site; he'd just told the kids to go out and find the info.dan allossohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10733670017382794923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-51759874279631462372010-10-27T18:54:12.134-04:002010-10-27T18:54:12.134-04:00This certainly parallels the Texas textbook contro...This certainly parallels the Texas textbook controversy. Two of the expert historians who advised on that curriculum were amateurs: the late Peter Marshall (author of the million-selling, evangelical God-and-country history, The Light and the Glory) and David Barton (now a regular on Glenn Beck). <br /><br />Counter-expertise is all the rage of late. It gives new relevance to Richard Hofstadter's Anti-Intellectualism in American Life.Randallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755286304057000048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7872819010848426693.post-15894813788032242672010-10-27T15:38:01.440-04:002010-10-27T15:38:01.440-04:00Good post. I feel a bit bad for the elementary sch...Good post. I feel a bit bad for the elementary school teachers who made up the committee which reviewed this book, they were almost set up to fail.<br /><br />These state history textbooks are a huge business. A friend of mine bought a house with his royalties. You would think they could afford a couple of historians to look the damned things over.Larry Cebulahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16798046652983001155noreply@blogger.com