[565] Ibid., p. 6.
[566] Ibid.
[567] Ibid., p. 4.
[568] Hassard, John R. G., A History of the United States of America (New York, 1878), p. vi.
[569] Ibid.
The National Lutheran Council had, in 1923, a committee on history textbooks, whose purpose was to make known any “flagrant or actual misrepresentations” of their church in history textbooks used in the United States. Letter from Lauritz Larsen, President of the National Lutheran Council to the author under date of January 13, 1923. No report of the committee was given. The writer of the letter also stated that there had been no “organized effort to suggest the content of history textbooks in the public schools, not even as this might pertain to the teaching of the history of the Reformation in the public schools.”
According to Werner, Brigham Young “insisted that the school-books should be published in Utah, and written there if possible, rather than imported at unnecessary expense from the East. The teachers, too, he wrote should be Latter-day Saints, so that the children might learn only what they ought to know.” Werner, M. R., Brigham Young (New York, 1925), p. 451.
[570] Sweet, W. W., “Religion in Our School Histories,” The Christian Century, Vol. XLI (November 20, 1924), pp. 1502-1504.
[571] The textbook is not named in the article.
[572] The title of this book is not given in the article but such a statement appears in A History of the United States by the Franciscan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration, p. 68.