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Author Leahey, Christopher R.

Title Whitewashing war : historical myth, corporate textbooks, and possibilities for democratic education / Christopher R. Leahey ; foreword by E. Wayne Ross.

Imprint New York : Teachers College, Columbia University, c2010.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Welsh  959.7043071 L471w 2010    ---  Lib Use Only
Description xiv, 146 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The atomic bomb, the Vietnam War, and the new American militarism -- Whose history is it? : a close look at the corporate textbook -- A patriotic rendering of the Gulf of Tonkin crisis -- Whitewashing the Tet Offensive and the failures of 1968 -- Recovering democratic history education in an era of standardization.
Subject Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Study and teaching -- United States.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Historiography.
Textbooks -- Political aspects -- United States.
Textbook bias -- United States.
Myth -- Political aspects -- United States.
Education -- Political aspects -- United States.
War and education -- United States.
Added Author Ross, E. Wayne, 1956-
ISBN 9780807750438 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0807750433 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807750445 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0807750441 (hardcover : alk. paper)

 
    
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