There is several information I learn through this class. All this information was mentioned in the chapter of the books we used for this class. Most of the information I have learned was about History, History’s textbooks, Publishers of textbooks, and the story of America.
History is a course that is supposed to tell the stories of the past to the present generation. However, History presents the stories not as they exactly occurred. The stories of the past of America were not told exactly as they had happened to the simple fact that publishers of textbooks wanted to satisfy or to please a group of people. So, textbook had modified or transformed the American’s history to meet the demand of the multicultural left and the conservative religious right (Discussion 1) . In the Betrayal of History, Jack Garraty was surprised to discover that the latest edition of the eighth-grade textbook he had written in 1982 he had written, had been modified with a different information concerning the discovering of the Hudson River without his permission (Stille, vol. 45). It is hard to know that publishers did it just for the money, and not for the sake of science. In addition, it is unfortunate that publishers of textbooks were concerned …show more content…
“Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from favorites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership”
History is a course that is supposed to tell the stories of the past to the present generation. However, History presents the stories not as they exactly occurred. The stories of the past of America were not told exactly as they had happened to the simple fact that publishers of textbooks wanted to satisfy or to please a group of people. So, textbook had modified or transformed the American’s history to meet the demand of the multicultural left and the conservative religious right (Discussion 1) . In the Betrayal of History, Jack Garraty was surprised to discover that the latest edition of the eighth-grade textbook he had written in 1982 he had written, had been modified with a different information concerning the discovering of the Hudson River without his permission (Stille, vol. 45). It is hard to know that publishers did it just for the money, and not for the sake of science. In addition, it is unfortunate that publishers of textbooks were concerned …show more content…
“Around 1776, certain important people in the English colonies made a discovery that would prove enormously useful for the next two hundred years. They found that by creating a nation, a symbol, a legal unity called the United States, they could take over land, profits, and political power from favorites of the British Empire. In the process, they could hold back a number of potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership”