Title Schoolbook nation : conflicts over American history textbooks from the Civil War to the present / Joseph Moreau.

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Description	1 online resource (403 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Note	Originally published: 2003.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	From virtuous republic to nation-state -- Negotiating a national past: statewide textbook adoption and the legacy of the Civil War -- Rise of the (Catholic) American nation: United States history in parochial schools -- Race and the limits of community -- Anglo-Saxonism and the revolt against the professors -- Harold Rugg vs. Horatio Alger: social class and economic opportunity, 1930-1960 -- The narrative "unravels," 1961-1985: a story in three parts.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Textbook bias -- United States -- History.
	Textbook bias.
	United States.
	History.
	Textbooks -- Political aspects -- United States -- History.
	Textbooks -- Political aspects.
	Textbooks.
	United States -- History -- Textbooks.
Genre/Form	Textbooks.
Subject	United States -- History -- Study and teaching -- Political aspects.
	United States -- Historiography -- Political aspects.
	Historiography.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
	Textbooks.
Other Form:	Print version: Moreau, Joseph. Schoolbook nation. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, 2004 9780472030538 (OCoLC)56695950
ISBN	9780472026029 (electronic book)
	047202602X (electronic book)
	9780472030538
	0472030531 (paperback)
	0472113429 (acid-free paper)
	9780472113422 (acid-free paper)