Tag: history textbooks

Textbooks and the Civil Rights Movement

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 20, 2016

As I discussed in the Black Power post from a couple of days ago, the civil rights movement has no real start or end. It’s an ongoing series of struggles. The Civil Rights Movement we think of as having primarily existed between 1954 and 1965 is really just a moment where the black freedom struggle […]

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Factual Accuracy is For Evil Liberals

By Erik Loomis

On November 24, 2015

In Texas, this is just a worker. Texas gonna Texas: Top Texas education officials rejected Wednesday letting university experts fact-check textbooks approved for use in public-school classrooms statew

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The Textbook Scam

By Erik Loomis

On November 1, 2015

Henry Farrell is speaking some truth here about the textbook scam. I teach international relations at a university where political science is the most popular major. As well as teaching intensive semi

History Wars in South Korea

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 30, 2015

Over the last several years, battles over history textbooks have occasionally come up in the American media, with conservatives freaking out the new AP U.S. History standards that don’t explicitly celebrate American exceptionalism and Texas forcing textbook companies to downplay issues like slavery or anything positive about racial minorities. Conservatives want celebratory history taught and […]

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All of Your History Stories, In One Fine Collection

By Erik Loomis

On October 9, 2015

Like the environmental post yesterday, there are a lot of interesting historical posts I’ve been meaning to talk about. Let’s move through them all at once. 1) Extremely expensive dinners

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The Pre-College History Textbook and Persistent Dunningism

By Erik Loomis

On August 2, 2015

James Loewen calls out the eminent historian of the Civil War, James McPherson, on the middle school U.S. history textbook emblazoned with his name for its coverage of Southern secession. McPherson

dn Modern Pentecostalism started in Los Angeles. There has always been a big urban-poor component. Methodism originally spread by targeting the urban working class of England too. Basically, this type of...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,000 · January 23, 2022
ringtail I like the idea of a devil, some kind of zoroastrianesque cosmic duality. But I also like the idea of the abrahamic god as actually a minor trickster god who's just been messing with us, much to the...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,000 · January 23, 2022
P. Tape It's pretty funny that with all this civilization a significant number of people still follow self-proclaimed sorcerers. And they're really mad at being laughed at.
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,000 · January 23, 2022
rm I remember the "give me $8 million or Jesus will kill me" thing, but in my memory he claimed Jesus was 800 feet tall when He told Oral ths. A little googling corrects my memory: (1) Jesus was 900...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,000 · January 23, 2022
dn Obligatory plug for the wonderful documentary Marjoe, in which a grifting preacher loses his faith and decides to expose the tricks of the trade by inviting a film crew to record his last revival tour...
Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,000 · January 23, 2022