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Whitewashing war : historical myth, corporate textbooks, and possibilities for democratic education /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Leahey, Christopher R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, [2010]
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Study and teaching > United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Historiography.
Textbooks > Political aspects > United States.
Textbook bias > United States.
Myth > Political aspects > United States.
Education > Political aspects > United States.
War and education > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • The atomic bomb, the Vietnam War, and the new American militarism
  • Whose history is it? : a close look at the corporate textbook
  • A patriotic rendering of the Gulf of Tonkin crisis
  • Whitewashing the Tet Offensive and the failures of 1968
  • Recovering democratic history education in an era of standardization.