[764] Information gained through a questionnaire sent to the superintendent of public instruction in each state. All states but South Carolina replied.
[765] A Syllabus of the World War for Use in the High Schools of The City of New York adopted by the Board of Superintendents (Department of Education of the City of New York, 1918), p. 5.
[766] “Accepted Fable,” The Freeman, Vol. VII (June 27, 1923), pp. 366-367.
[767] See page 248. Professor West is author of Modern Progress (Boston, 1920) but not of The Story of Human Progress. The quotation was not verified.
[768] “War in the Textbooks,” The Nation, Vol. CXIX (Sept. 17, 1924), p. 277.
[769] Ibid. See Hazen, Charles Downer, Modern Europe (New York, 1920), p. 690.
[770] Barnes, Harry Elmer, “Seven Books of History against the Germans,” The New Republic, Vol. XXXVIII (March 19, 1924), part II, pp. 10-15. Also see Professor Hazen’s letter in The New Republic, Vol. XXXVIII (May 7, 1924), pp. 284-285. On the question of the origin of the War a series of articles by Professor Barnes appeared in The Christian Century for October, November, December, 1925. See also Barnes, Harry Elmer, in Current History, Vol. XXII (May, 1924), on the origin of the War; also Fay, Sidney B., “New Light on the Origins of the World War,” The American Historical Review, Vol. XXVI (October, 1920), pp. 37-53; Fay, Sidney Bradshaw, “The Black Hand Plot that led to the World War,” Current History, Vol. XXIII (November, 1925), pp. 196-207.
[771] The Nation, loc. cit. Robinson, James Harvey, and Beard, Charles A., History of Europe Our Own Times (Boston, 1921), pp. 543-544.
[772] The Nation, loc. cit. See Hayes, Carlton J. H., and Moon, Thomas Parker, Modern History (New York, 1923).
[773] Taft, Donald R., “Historical Textbooks and International Differences” (Chicago, 1925). Guitteau, William Backus, Our United States (New York, 1923). Long, William J., America (Boston, 1923).