Public opinion and the teaching of history in the United States

by Bessie Louise Pierce

[784] Ibid., p. 1. Also “Report of Committee on Patriotic Education” published separately and obtained from Judge Wallace McCamant, Portland, Oregon.

[785] Ibid.

[786] Ibid., pp. 2-3.

[787] Ibid., p. 3.

[788] Ibid.

[789] Ibid., p. 6. Guitteau’s Our United States and Halleck’s History of Our Country are designed primarily for the junior high school, and not for the senior high school.

[790] Ibid., p. 5. Cf. statement of Charles Grant Miller, page 211.

[791] Pamphlet, “The Sons of the American Revolution and the Histories in Use in Our Schools,” p. 7. At their meeting at Swampscott, Massachusetts, in May, 1925, Judge McCamant again called the attention of the Sons of the American Revolution to the textbook situation, and urged them to use pressure to have the right kind of textbooks in the schools of their states. Boston Herald, May 19, 1925.

[792] Ibid., p. 3.

[793] District of Columbia Board of Education Piney Branch Citizens’ Association against Muzzey’s School History (Washington, D. C., April 25, 1923), p. 2. [Washington, D. C.] Sunday Star, June 4, 1922. Muzzey’s defense is criticized by the chairman of the Piney Branch Historical Committee in an issue of the Star, June 18, 1922.