Monuments Between Covers
The Politics of Textbooks
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7571087 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Tyack (Stanford University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 922-932 |
| Publication date | 1999-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00027649921954651 |
| OpenAlex | W2011733746 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 20 |
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
Criminology · Loyalty · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Gender Studies · History · Law
Education and the Culture Wars
Hard lessons on racial inequality? A research agenda on ‘difficult knowledge’ in the post-colonial classroom in Europe
Supporting Civic Reasoning, Discourse, and Problem Solving That Is Political Without Being Partisan
O fardo holandês
Beyond post-racial narratives
Conflict between covers
Education at the End of a Gun
Curricular Alienation
Value Messages Collide with Reality
America revised
Lies my teacher told me
Textbook Politics
The Movement to Americanize the Immigrant
Letters of Benjamin Rush
Outside In
The Recurring Dream
Civic Attitudes in American School Textbooks
Citizens' Organizations and the Civic Training of Youth
What Johnny Shouldn't Read
American History and the Structures of Collective Memory
Guardians of Tradition
Guardians of Tradition
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |