Social History for Beginners: A "Young Scholar" Looks at His New Profession

Journal of Social History

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Gassan, Richard ^a  

^a Department of History ^*  (United States)

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EID: 0141430087     PISSN: 00224529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jsh.2003.0141     Document Type: Review

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1. This campaign, although now much muted, is still being carried on in some quarters. I found this recently while researching the McGuffey Readers. Although long out of print, they are now being reprinted and marketed as, in the words of one Web site, "good Christian readers" (http://www.booklineandthinker.com/page08.html). One site encapsulates these arguments: "The McGuffey Readers were a better reading system than anything that exists in a school today . . . [but] weren't politically correct . . . History hasn't changed since it happened. So why do we need new history books?" (http://www.geocities.com/HotSprings/Spa/2106/politi02ihtm)