Not Written in Stone

by Ward, Kyle

• ISBN13: 9781595581440
• ISBN10: 1595581448
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-05-25
• Publisher: New Pr

Summary

In this compelling and utterly fresh look at American history, historian Kyle Ward shows how U.S. textbooks from different eras over the past two hundred years have described the same historical events in completely different ways. An adaptation of his acclaimed History in the Making, Not Written in Stone gives us an abridged and annotated version specifically designed for classroom use.

Author Biography

Kyle Ward is 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

Acknowledgments	p. xi
A Note for Teachers	p. xiii
A Note on U.S. History Textbooks	p. xvii
Discovery and Colonization
Images of Native Americans	p. 3
Columbus's First Voyage	p. 24
Pocahontas and Captain John Smith	p. 39
Anne Hutchinson	p. 53
The Pequot War	p. 57
The Salem Witch Trials	p. 68
The American Revolution
The Boston Massacre	p. 77
Lexington and Concord	p. 86
The Battle of Trenton	p. 98
George Rogers Clark	p. 105
Women in the American Revolution	p. 111
Founding a Nation
Shays' Rebellion	p. 125
The Barbary Pirates	p. 130
Sacagawea	p. 137
Tecumseh	p. 146
Westward Expansion
The Monroe Doctrine	p. 159
The Alamo	p. 165
The Trail of Tears	p. 173
The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848	p. 177
The Mormons	p. 186
The Civil War and Reconstruction
Dred Scott	p. 195
Slavery	p. 200
African American Soldiers	p. 209
African Americans During Reconstruction	p. 213
The Old West and Industrialization
Andrew Carnegie and the Homestead Strike	p. 229
Wounded Knee Massacre	p. 233
Immigration	p. 236
McKinley Assassination	p. 248
The Philippine-American War	p. 251
Notes	p. 259
Index	p. 269
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