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HISTORY IN THE MAKING : An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling Over the Last 200 Years
Kyle Ward
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Description for HISTORY IN THE MAKING : An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling Over the Last 200 Years
paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; HBAH; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 140 x 24. Weight in Grams: 460.
In this thought-provoking study, historian Kyle Ward provides a fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way people learn their country's history. Juxtaposing passages from US history textbooks from different eras, History in the Making provides intriguing new perspectives on familiar historical events and the ways in which they have been represented over time. An immensely readable book which proves that one person's history isn't their grandparents' history, and won't be their children's history.
In this thought-provoking study, historian Kyle Ward provides a fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way people learn their country's history. Juxtaposing passages from US history textbooks from different eras, History in the Making provides intriguing new perspectives on familiar historical events and the ways in which they have been represented over time. An immensely readable book which proves that one person's history isn't their grandparents' history, and won't be their children's history.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781595582157
SKU
V9781595582157
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99-15
About Kyle Ward
Kyle Ward is the director of the social studies education program at St. Cloud State University. He worked as a high school teacher for many years, teaching a variety of subjects. He is a co-author (with Dana Lindaman) of History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History and the author of History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years and Not Written in Stone: Learning and Unlearning American History Through 200 Years of Textbooks, all published by The New Press.
Reviews for HISTORY IN THE MAKING : An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling Over the Last 200 Years
"This thought-provoking study is ideal for history buffs and the general public; for public libraries and teachers' college collections." —Library Journal "A nation's guiding assumptions must be continually re-examined . . . [Ward] shows that looking back and reconsidering history is a prerequisite of the very possibility of moving forward." —History News Network