Synopses & Reviews
Looking at the different ways textbooks from different eras present the same historical events,
Not Written in Stone offers an abridged and annotated version of Kyle Wards celebrated
History in the Making specifically designed for classroom use. In each section, Ward provides an overview, questions for discussions and analysis, and then a fascinating chronological sampling of textbook excerpts that reveal the fascinating differences between different textbooks over time.
Topics covered include: Images of Native Americans, Columbus First Voyage, Pocahontas and Captain John Smith, Anne Hutchinson, Pequot War, Property Rights in the New World, Salem Witch-hunt, Boston Massacre, Lexington and Concord, The Battle of Trenton, George Rogers Clark, Women in the American Revolution, Shays Rebellion, The Barbary Pirates, Sacagawea, Tecumseh and Harrison, Monroe Doctrine, The Alamo, The Trail of Tears, Andrew Jacksons Adoption, Start of the Mexican-American War, Mormons, Dred Scott, African-American Soldiers, Slavery, US-Dakota War of 1862, African-Americans during Reconstruction, Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike, Wounded Knee Massacre, Immigrants, McKinley Assassination, Philippine-American War.
Synopsis
A teaching edition of the "thought-provoking study" History in the Making, which explores how our view of the history changes over time (Library Journal). Kyle Ward's celebrated History in the Making struck a chord among readers of popular history. "Interesting and useful," according to Booklist, the book "convincingly illustrates how texts change as social and political attitudes evolve." With excerpts from history textbooks that span two hundred years, History in the Making looks at the different ways textbooks from different eras interpret and present the same historical events.
Not Written in Stone offers an abridged and annotated version of History in the Making specifically designed for classroom use. In each section, Ward provides an overview, questions for discussions and analysis, and then a fascinating chronological sampling of textbook excerpts which reveal the striking differences between textbooks over time.
An exciting new teaching tool, Not Written in Stone is destined to become a staple of classroom teaching about the American past.
"Students, teachers, and general readers will learn more about the past from these passages than from any single work, however current, that purports to monopolize the truth." -Ray Raphael, author of Founding Myths
About the Author
Kyle Ward is the Director of Social Studies Education at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Over the past twenty years, he has worked as both a high school social studies teacher and a professor of history and social studies methods at the university level. The co-author (with Dana Lindaman) of History Lessons and the author of In the Shadow of Glory, History in the Making and The Pacific War and History Textbooks, he lives in Sartell, Minnesota.
Table of Contents
Discovery and ColonizationImages of Native Americans
Columbus First Voyage
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith
Anne Hutchinson
Pequot War
Property Rights in the New World
Salem Witch-hunt
The American Revolution
Boston Massacre
Lexington and Concord
The Battle of Trenton
George Rogers Clark
Women in the American Revolution
Founding a Nation
Shays Rebellion
The Barbary Pirates
Sacagawea
Tecumseh and Harrison
Westward Expansion
Monroe Doctrine
The Alamo
The Trail of Tears
Andrew Jacksons Adoption
Start of the Mexican-American War
Mormons
Advice to Students
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Dred Scott
African-American Soldiers
Slavery
US-Dakota War of 1862
African-Americans during Reconstruction
The Old West and Industrialization
Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike
Wounded Knee Massacre
Immigrants
McKinley Assassination
Philippine-American War