01180pab a2200157 454500 180718b1999 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Tyack, David Monuments between covers: the politics of textbooks 1999 p.922-32 Mar History textbooks have represented state-approved civic truth. They reveal what adults thought children should learn about the past and are probably the best index of what young Americans did learn in class. History texts have given the past a patriotic gloss, varnishing familiar icons and perpetuating familiar interpretations. Like monuments designed to commemorate and re-present emblematic figures and events, textbooks shaped the public culture. But over time, textbooks did change, for many groups insisted that their truths prevail. Conflicts often intensified in periods of stress - hot and cold wars, depression, and sharp demographic shifts - when loyalty police went on alert and social activists recruited allies. The present history wars are a late chapter in a long book. - Reproduced Textbooks American Behavioral Scientist 41118 41118 41118 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 42, Issue no: 6 AR41494 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR