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Peer reviewedClark, Tina M. – OAH Magazine of History, 1990
This student paper, a first place winner in the 1987 National History Day competition, relates events of the first college textbook controversy in the United States. In 1947, University of Wyoming trustees authorized reviewing textbooks for "subversive tendencies." Faculty and trustees successfully negotiated the controversy, resulting…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Communism, Conflict Resolution, Controversial Issues (Course Content)
