tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36737438.post4195882233140822303..comments2023-10-09T12:53:26.057-04:00Comments on USHistoryBlog.com: What Makes a Good US History Textbook?klkatzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08972547410066863818noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36737438.post-9112381366022909882009-11-08T12:32:18.948-05:002009-11-08T12:32:18.948-05:00As a student, I think that a good history textbook...As a student, I think that a good history textbook should be written in a neutral way. For exampe it should include mistakes, comments and positive way of actions of both sides, if the subject is war or anything like that. It should not provoke nationalism, kinds of economic systems or trends that direct students to think one sided. A history textbook should make students to think in a critical and reconstructive way. It should include many historical records in the forms of pictures,cartoons, videos, letters and documents. Also it should be creative that can explain the information as the way that students will not find like a story.A.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09904152621552979067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36737438.post-21496291576235573992009-10-06T19:05:08.870-04:002009-10-06T19:05:08.870-04:00Today I began searching for 'history' blog...Today I began searching for 'history' blogs. I wanted to see if there are any books like I have written. Beads on a String-America's Racially Intertwined Biographical History it is on my site http://wade-inpublishing.blogspot.com/<br /><br />The book includes every race that had anything to do with making America the country it is. Please let me know what you think.Ey Wadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04410026742901835948noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36737438.post-86375882441510388902009-07-13T14:16:05.321-04:002009-07-13T14:16:05.321-04:00A colleague of mine sent me this link... very appr...A colleague of mine sent me this link... very appropriate for this discussion:<br /><br /><a href="http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090709/OPINION03/907090302/1104/opinion/-Common-core--must-account-for-Hawaiians" rel="nofollow">http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090709/OPINION03/907090302/1104/opinion/-Common-core--must-account-for-Hawaiians</a>klkatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972547410066863818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36737438.post-65170399729582622082009-07-07T22:49:43.932-04:002009-07-07T22:49:43.932-04:00The poster also said other books and I think that ...The poster also said other books and I think that both of those books would be helpful to include them with your more traditional textbooks. I would also suggest looking at Loewen's website which has a lot of information on teaching and other helpful hints.NKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10495981842674207048noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36737438.post-58189517608208658602009-07-04T00:29:23.928-04:002009-07-04T00:29:23.928-04:00"I would suggest James Loewen's Lies my T..."I would suggest James Loewen's Lies my Teacher told me and Howard Zinn's Peoples History of the United States."<br />I don't think that is what he is looking for. James Loewen's work is a critique of history textbooks not a textbook itself. Also he wanted a textbook that presented a fair and blanced (hate to sound like fox news) on both sides focusing on good and bad points of the U.S. Howard Zinn by his own admission is very biased with a heavy focus on the 'not nice" aspects.Jeremynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36737438.post-49231343458415687182009-07-02T15:30:05.931-04:002009-07-02T15:30:05.931-04:00From a colleague I met at a conference:
This is t...From a colleague I met at a conference:<br /><br />This is the one we ordered a couple years ago. Seems to present a fairly balanced discussion of the overthrow, annexation, and sovereignty.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.besspress.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=394" rel="nofollow">http://www.besspress.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=394</a>klkatzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08972547410066863818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36737438.post-82307067601671845742009-06-29T20:40:31.735-04:002009-06-29T20:40:31.735-04:00I would suggest James Loewen's Lies my Teacher...I would suggest James Loewen's Lies my Teacher told me and Howard Zinn's Peoples History of the United StatesNKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10495981842674207048noreply@blogger.com