Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a fresh and more accurate approach to teaching American history.
James Axtell, “Europeans, Indians, and the Age of Discovery in American HistoryTextbooks,” American Historical Review 92 (1987): 627. Essays such as Axtell's, which review college-level textbooks, rarely appear in history journals.
The average of 1,150 pages derives from these six books: Joyce Appleby, Alan Brinkley, and James McPherson, The American Journey (NYC: Glencoe McGrawHill, 2000); Daniel Boorstin and Brooks Mather Kelley, A History of the United States ...
An historian sets the record straight on Columbus's "discovery" of the Americas, using art and text to sum up recent revisionist thought and to debunk common myths about the European invader responsible for the deaths of thousands.
... 1964), 97; James Axtell, The Invasion Within (NY: Oxford UP, 1985), 3 oz–27; N. Brent Kennedy, The Melungeons (Macon, GA: Mercer UP, 1997); Peter Wallenstein, “Race, Marriage, and the Law of Freedom,” Chicago-Kent Law Review, 7o no.
This book is about forming effective critiques of neoclassical economics.
See also Alice B. Kehoe, “Small Boats Upon the North Atlantic,” in Carroll Riley et al., eds., Man Across the Sea (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971). history is not a set of facts: James West Davidson and Mark H. Lytle, ...
This Young Reader’s Edition makes Darwin’s cornerstone of modern science accessible to readers of all ages.
A number of musical misconceptions are explored and exploded in this humorous and lucid discussion of the relation between the human perception of music and traditional systems of music education.
In this hard-hitting collection of 4 essays, Dr Wilson cuts straight to the chase: YOU WERE LIED TO!You were lied to about the nature, character, and cause of the American "Civil War," but that is just the start.
A textbook which traces the history of Mississippi from prehistoric times until today, covering all areas of social life and concentrating on recent developments, especially the civil rights struggle and the search for social justice.