History on Trial : Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past Condition:Very Good After this tragic loss

After this tragic loss

and the frontier campaigns at the century’s end

Come forward and tell us what God has done

Author: Rachel Hore

History on Trial : Culture Wars and the Teaching of the Past Condition:Very Good After this tragic lossA great national controversy over the setting of voluntary standards for the teaching of history in our elementary and high schools erupted in 1994, opening up a new front in the nation's culture wars. As the authors Gary B. Nash, Charlotte Crabtree, and Ross E. Dunn show, this phenomenon was not unfamiliar in the United States. Public debate over history has frequently occurred during the past two centuries, usually involving a clash of views, along