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by Sally Matheny
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| Is It Important to Teach American History? |
I love history, especially American history. I love reading about some interesting part of history I’ve never read about before, then researching primary documents to see if it’s true. So many fascinating facts never make the cut to be included in school textbooks. Perhaps if more of them were incorporated, a greater interest in American history would result. Is it important to teach the history of our country?
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A couple of months ago my father told me about the advance copy he had recently received of Pulitzer Prize-winning historian David McCullough's new illustrated edition of 1776, which he's saving for us and described as "an enormous book stuffed with removable facsimiles of various documents".
So I was interested to read The Wall Street Journal's Author Q&A interview this past weekend with Mr.
at the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa (via The Globe & Mail; emphasis in bold mine):
The battle's not over yet. But under pressure from Bomber Command veterans' groups and sympathetic politicians, the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa will adjust the wording on a panel dealing with the 1945 firebombing of Dresden.
"The final wording has not come out," Fredrik Eaton, chair of the museum board, told
At the end of my hep cat post the other week, I mentioned all too briefly Chris Barton's post at Bartography about fictionalized versions of history in children's picture books. If you didn't notice the mention or read it then, go read it now (and not too quickly either), and come on back.
Since we started homeschooling three years ago, I've noticed that one question that comes up often in
