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History Repeating Itself
Gregory M. Pfitzer
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Description for History Repeating Itself
Paperback. Series: Studies in Print Culture and History of the Book. Num Pages: 366 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: DSY; JFD; KNTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 532.
Recently publishers on the Christian Right have been reprinting nineteenth-century children’s history books and marketing them to parents as “anchor texts” for homeschool instruction. Why, Gregory M. Pfitzer asks, would books written more than 150 years ago be presumed suitable for educating twenty-first-century children? The answer, he proposes, is that promoters of these recycled works believe that history as a discipline took a wrong turn in the early twentieth century, when progressive educators introduced social studies methodologies into public school history classrooms, foisting upon unsuspecting and vulnerable children ideologically distorted history books.
In History Repeating Itself, Pfitzer tests these ... Read more
Recently publishers on the Christian Right have been reprinting nineteenth-century children’s history books and marketing them to parents as “anchor texts” for homeschool instruction. Why, Gregory M. Pfitzer asks, would books written more than 150 years ago be presumed suitable for educating twenty-first-century children? The answer, he proposes, is that promoters of these recycled works believe that history as a discipline took a wrong turn in the early twentieth century, when progressive educators introduced social studies methodologies into public school history classrooms, foisting upon unsuspecting and vulnerable children ideologically distorted history books.
In History Repeating Itself, Pfitzer tests these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press United States
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Print Culture and History of the Book
Number of Pages
366
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341242
SKU
V9781625341242
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About Gregory M. Pfitzer
Gregory M. Pfitzer is professor of American studies at Skidmore College and author, most recently, of Popular History and the Literary Marketplace, 1840–1920 (University of Massachusetts Press, 2008).
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