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Videos

• Rebecca Goetz: History Wars: The Texas Textbook Controversy


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• Lisa Norling: History Wars: The Texas Textbook Controversy


• Mark A. Chancey: History Wars: The Texas Textbook Controversy

News

• Texas school board approves resolution decrying"pro-Islamic" textbook bias
  

   

• Texas education board to consider rule on Islam's portrayal in textbooks
  

   

• Texas SBOE may OK resolution on Islamic bias in Texas textbooks
  

   

• What happens with Texas textbooks will most likely stay in Texas, say experts
  

   

• Texas State Board of Education Approves Controversial Social Studies Curriculum Changes
  

   

• Bad social studies standards: Not just in Texas
  

   

• Texas Textbooks: Is America 'Exceptional'?
  

   

• Texas School Board Set to Vote Textbook Revisions
  

   

• Obama's Middle Name Ignites Textbook Battle
  

   

• Texas wants to rename slave trade as"Atlantic triangular trade"
  

   

• NAACP president, ex-education secretary joining chorus against Texas book plan
  

   

• Texas SBOE set to vote on social studies changes
  

   

• AHA Calls on the Texas State Board of Education to Reconsider TEKS Social Studies Amendments
  

   

• Historians say state should toss proposal
  

   

• Taking the Texas SBOE to School
  

   

• Historians Call on Texas State Board of Education to Delay Vote
  

   

• In Texas Curriculum Fight, Identity Politics Leans Right
  

   

• Historians blast proposed Texas social studies curriculum
  

   

• Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change
  

   

• Texas board endorses conservative-backed curriculum
  

   

• Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts
  

   

• Texas SBOE members clash over racial balance in history
  

   

• University of Dayton historian criticizes textbooks for minimizing Reagan
  

   

• 43% say their kids' U.S. history textbooks are inaccurate
  

   

• Conservatives in, Ted Kennedy out of Texas U.S. history standards
  

   

• Lawmaker tells Texas' State Board of Education that Hispanics are lacking in textbooks
  

   

• Debate over U.S. history curriculum in Texas schools resumes
  

   

• The Culture Wars' New Front: U.S. History Classes in Texas

Commentary

• John Willingham: More Controversy in Texas over Textbooks
  

   

• Mark A. Chancey: Islam Resolution Reflects Frightening Agenda
  

   

• Robin Lindley: Textbooks and History Standards: An Historical Overview
  

   

• Vote iQ Hot Topics: The Texas Textbook Controversy
  

   

• Texas Freedom Network: Politics and Curriculum Standards in Texas
  

   

• Kyle Ward: The Missing Key to the Texas History Textbook Debate
  

   

• Melissa Harris-Lacewell: You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
  

   

• Stephen Schwartz: Let’s Hear It for Tex Avery
  

   

• Michael Lind: Texas Textbooks and the Truth About the Confederacy
  

   

• Afi-Odelia Scruggs: The Miseducation of Texas School Kids
  

   

• Cary Clack: Curriculum Decision Shortchanges our Children
  

   

• Noel S. Anderson: Texas Politics is More Than Just Textbooks
  

   

• Robert C. Koons: Liberal Bias Evident in Simplistic Narrative in Which Powerful Federal Government is Sole Engine of Progress and Equality
  

   

• David Upham: Is Texas Messing With History?
  

   

• Ron Briley: The Texas State Board of Education and History Standards: A Teacher’s Perspective
  

   

• Brian Thevenot: The Textbook Myth
  

   

• Daniel Czitrom: Texas School Board Whitewashes History
  

   

• Joseph A. Palermo: New York Times Article on Texas History Standards Misses How the Historical"Narrative" Has Changed
  

   

• Phyllis Schlafly: Texas Kicks Out Liberal Bias From Textbooks
  

   

• Amity Shlaes: Conservatives are Giving Liberals a Taste of 'Balance'
  

   

• Christine M. Flowers: A Textbook Case of Hysteria
  

   

• Steve Haycox: We Prefer a Shiny Image of America
  

   

• Thomas Frank: Don't Mess With the Texas Board of Ed
  

   

• Matthew Crow: Why is Texas Afraid of Thomas Jefferson?
  

   

• Jonathan Zimmerman: American History -- Right and Left
  

   

• Binoy Kampmark: Education in Texas is Moving Right & Going Wrong
  

   

• Diane Ravitch: Texas Promotes Ignorance in its Textbook Requirements
  

   

• John Willingham: The Texas State Board of Education’s Reasons for Elevating Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson
  

   

• Gabriel Winant: Texas Messes with History
  

   

• Kelly Shackelford: Why the Texas Textbook Wars Matter to Every American
  

   

• John Willingham: The Texas State Board of Education and the Vindication of Joe McCarthy
  

   

• John Willingham: Texas State Board of Education Tries to Dilute History of Women, Minorities
  

   

• John Willingham: The Texas State Board of Education's Attempt to Christianize the Founders
  

   

• Keith A. Erekson: Texas Social Studies Reform: What Texans Aren’t Talking About—But Should Be
  

   

• Russell Shorto: Christianizing American History

Related Links

• Vote iQ Hot Topics: The Texas Textbook Controversy
  

   

• Barbara D. Metcalf: History with Controversy, and History Without
  

   

• Are Historians Biased?
  

   

• HNN Poll: What are the Pros and Cons of Texas's New History Curriculum?
  

   

• Proposed Changes to Texas Social Studies Curriculum
  

   

• Current Texas Social Studies Curriculum

HNN Special: Scholars Assess the Proposed Texas Social Studies Standards

• Keith A. Erekson: Introduction to the Feature
  

   

   

• Michael Soto: Plagiarized Work
  

   

• Jesús F. de la Teja: An Almost Impossibly Large Set of Standards Produced by a Problematic Process
  

   

• Emilio Zamora: A Pattern of Neglect and a Missed Opportunity
  

   

• Iliana Alanís: A Culturally Irrelevant History of"Melodramatic Minutiae"
  

   

• Keith A. Erekson: An Overstuffed Laundry List that Treats Seniors like Kindergartners
  

   

• Roberto R. Calderón: A Sanitized History
  

   

• Kirsten Gardner: An Incomplete Version of the Past that Silences Important Struggles
  

   

• John Willingham: The God in Whom We Should Trust

Past Controversies: The National History Standards Dispute

• Kevin R. Kosar: National Education Standards….They’re Back! (03-13-2006)
  

   

• Jon Wiener: Teaching 9-11: What the Textbooks Say (09-19-2005)
  

   

• Joseph Moreau: The American Textbook Wars: The Revised Edition (05-23-2005)
  

   

• Gary B. Nash: Lynne Cheney's Attack on the History Standards, 10 Years Later (11-08-2004)
  

   

• Jonathan Rees: The Reason Lynne Cheney Had 300,000 History Booklets Destroyed (10-18-2004)
  

   

• Steven J. Ross: Lynne Cheney: Book Burner?(10-13-2004)
  

   

• Salon.com Expose on Politicizing of the NEH (08-26-2004)
  

   

• Should History Be Taught Backwards? (05-05-2003)
  

   

• Dave Johnson: Who's Behind the Attack on Liberal Professors? (02-10-2003)