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Teaching "The American Promise": The Academic Textbook Industry and the Thinning of American History
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Direct linkConolly-Smith, Peter – History Teacher, 2019
Peter Conolly-Smith, a history professor at Queens College, uses the textbook "The American Promise," since 1998, and now in its seventh edition. He has been using this book for twenty years, and it has accompanied him from one school to another, providing the backbone of his post-1865 survey course. The relationship he has developed…
Descriptors: History Instruction, United States History, Graduate Students, Textbooks
