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songbird wrote:

Billy wrote:
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Which of the Foxfires do you find helpful, or are you just a curious
sort?

hahaha, curious, yeah, but also find it interesting to
read up about mountain folk as i did live in the hills
for a few years. and some things i read in their
interviews aren't mentioned in other references, so it
adds some depth or experience that i would not have
otherwise. just in case i actually ever have to do any
of these things.

i've not read through all of them yet, but each seems
to keep my interest enough to make them worth it.

right now i'm reading Zinn's _People's History..._ you
recommended to me last year. very interesting there too.
Jackson, wow...

Yeah, the beginnings of modern politics. Talk one way, and act another.



songbird

History is a contentious subject. A national standard curriculum was
advocated in in the 80s in response to a study called a "A Nation at
Risk: The Imperative For Educational Reform". Most everything was agreed
to, except history. Some see history as Christian Europeans bringing
civilization to the unwashed masses, others, however, like Zinn, see the
contributions, good and bad, made by all people to history. The standard
curriculum was never ratified.

A good companion book to Zinn's "People's History" is "Lies My Teacher
Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" by James
W. Loewen.
Everything/dp/0743296281/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1391047674&sr=1-
1&keywords=Lies+my+teacher+taught+me
From Publishers Weekly
Loewen's politically correct critique of 12 American history
textbooks‹including The American Pageant by Thomas A. Bailey and David
M. Kennedy; and Triumph of the American Nation by Paul Lewis Todd and
Merle Curti‹is sure to please liberals and infuriate conservatives. In
condemning the way history is taught, he indicts everyone involved in
the enterprise: authors, publishers, adoption committees, parents and
teachers. Loewen (Mississippi: Conflict and Change) argues that the
bland, Eurocentric treatment of history bores most elementary and high
school students, who also find it irrelevant to their lives. To make
learning more compelling, Loewen urges authors, publishers and teachers
to highlight the drama inherent in history by presenting students with
different viewpoints and stressing that history is an ongoing process,
not merely a collection of‹often misleading‹factoids. Readers interested
in history, whether liberal or conservative, professional or layperson,
will find food for thought here. Illustrated.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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