History on Trial Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past
- List Price: $17.00
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Random House Inc
- Publish date: 03/01/2000
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In "History on Trial", authors Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn examine the debate over National History Standards, chronicling a media war spearheaded by conservatives such Pat Buchanan and Rush Limbaugh that sought to defame the project and culminated in a Senate resolution that set an ominous precedent: the manipulation of Federal funds to promote an official interpretation of our history. The book argues that contention over the past is as old as the past itself, that the democratizing of the history profession has led to more balanced presentation of American history, and that continuous re-examination of the past is the greatest service historians can render in a democracy.
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