Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools

by Jonathan Zimmerman

Book Overview

What do America's children learn about American history, American values, and human decency? Who decides? In this absorbing book, Jonathan Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of conflict, compromise, and more conflict over the teaching of history and morality in twentieth-century America.

In history, whose stories are told, and how? As Zimmerman reveals, multiculturalism began long ago. Starting in the 1920s, various immigrant groups--the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674018605
• ISBN13: 9780674018600
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 318 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.9"