The memory hole : the U.S. history curriculum under siege

• Main Author: Fischer, Fritz (Author)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2014.
• Subjects: Curriculum planning > United States > History.; Education > Curricula > United States > History.; United States > Historiography.; United States > History > Study and teaching.; Education > Curricula.; Curriculum planning and development.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781806613113
• DOI: 10.1108/978-1-62396-534-1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 184 pages)

The U.S. history curriculum is under attack. Politicians, political analysts, and ideologues seek to wipe clean the slate of the American past and replace it with one of their own invention. The basis for this new narrative comes from political beliefs of the present, rather than any systematic exam...