Tag: Textbooks

Our Virginia, Our Challenge

Last year, upon the release of Five Ponds Press’s fourth-grade textbook, Our Virginia, and its unfavorable write-up in the Washington Post, the history nerds of Virginia—which is to say, pretty…

Around the State, Textbooks, Virginia History

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A Textbook Explains the Slave Trade

After worrying through the issue of John Lewis, sharks, and the slave trade, I was curious how Virginia history textbooks handle the issue. (This was in part provoked by the… Read More»

Feedback: “Hey, I know that guy!”

Yesterday, hundreds of people clicked on our post about black Confederates. One of those people, a friend of mine recently of Charlottesville, even watched the segment from History Detectives we… Read More»

In Which Mary Tucker Magill Tells Us All About Indian Dandies Who Dance

Mary Tucker Magill‘s textbooks of Virginia history are actually pretty fun to read in large part because she is so actively present in her writing. I opened up my rather… Read More»

The Old Puritan

In a previous post, I mentioned John Brown. The “Old Puritan,” as he was sometimes called, was the subject of an hour-long discussion at the Virginia Civil War Sesquicentennial Signature… Read More»

Very Degraded in Every Way

Kevin Levin, at his blog Civil War Memory, recently posted an image and an excerpt from an old Virginia history textbook. He was disgusted (and rightly so) by the book’s… Read More»