- Texas officials: Schools should teach that slavery was ‘side issue’ to Civil War http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war/2015/07/05/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html 19 comments nottheonion
- Texas officials: Schools should teach that slavery was ‘side issue’ to Civil War https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war/2015/07/05/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html 6 comments nottheonion
- Texas officials: Schools should teach that slavery was ‘side issue’ to Civil War. The state’s guidelines for teaching American history also do not mention the Ku Klux Klan or Jim Crow laws. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war/2015/07/05/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html 898 comments politics
- 150 years later, schools are still a battlefield for interpreting Civil War http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war/2015/07/05/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html 139 comments history
- New Texas textbooks downplay role of slavery in Civil War: "Textbooks [fail] to quote from key primary sources: the Southern states’ declarations of secession, which made clear that they were leaving the union to protect white citizens’ right to own slaves" http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war/2015/07/05/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html 5 comments history
- New Texas textbooks downplay role of slavery in Civil War: "Textbooks [fail] to quote from key primary sources: the Southern states’ declarations of secession, which made clear that they were leaving the union to protect white citizens’ right to own slaves" http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war/2015/07/05/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html 183 comments history
- "Textbooks [fail] to quote from key primary sources: the Southern states’ declarations of secession, which made clear that they were leaving the union to protect white citizens’ right to own slaves" http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/150-years-later-schools-are-still-a-battlefield-for-interpreting-civil-war/2015/07/05/e8fbd57e-2001-11e5-bf41-c23f5d3face1_story.html 217 comments politics
Linking pages
- Texas education board bracing for showdown over social studies curriculum https://www.houstonchronicle.com/politics/texas/article/Texas-education-board-social-studies-curriculum-17239340.php 31 comments
- Rick Perry, Republicans, and the African-American Vote http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/07/rick-perry-republicans-and-the-black-vote.html 20 comments
- Opinion | How Texas Teaches History - The New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/22/opinion/how-texas-teaches-history.html?amp%3Bsmtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytopinion 14 comments
- How Texas is whitewashing Civil War history - The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/whitewashing-civil-war-history-for-young-minds/2015/07/06/1168226c-2415-11e5-b77f-eb13a215f593_story.html 11 comments
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