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Dinnerstein, Leonard – History Teacher, 1983
A university professor describes his experiences in compiling, editing, and finding a publisher for a reader for a college-level American history course. (RM)
Descriptors: Editing, Experience, Higher Education, Textbook Content

Unger, Irwin – History Teacher, 1983
A university professor describes his experiences with publishing companies and editors as he wrote the undergraduate U.S. history survey textbook "These United States." (RM)
Descriptors: Authors, Experience, Higher Education, Introductory Courses

Downey, Matthew T. – History Teacher, 1980
Recommends that history textbooks used in schools should be more carefully reviewed before publication and adoption. Criteria which should be applied to textbooks under review include whether the book is well-informed, concerned with historical analysis as well as historical description, and organized and written so that it helps rather than…
Descriptors: Authors, Educational Needs, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education