Public opinion and the teaching of history in the United States

by Bessie Louise Pierce

[149] Compiled Laws of Florida, 1914, 390, art. 4, Vol. I, p. 141; Laws, 1905, ch. 5382, sec. 6, p. 34, also Laws, 1903, p. 180.

[150] Laws of Florida, 1909, ch. 5938, p. 126 (No. 69).

[151] Constitution and Revised Laws of Louisiana, 1876 to 1902 (Act 214, 1902), sec. 23, p. 612; again ibid., 1908, p. 45; Annotated Revision, 1915, 2532, sec. 16, Vol. I, p. 846. The law was unchanged in the Revisions of 1908 and of 1915.

[152] Laws of Mississippi, 1916, ch. 187 (4540), p. 277.

[153] General and Local Acts of Ohio, 1904, sec. 4007-1, p. 359.

[154] Ibid., 1910, p. 103.

[155] Code of Ohio, 1910, sec. 7648, sec. 7649, p. 1622.

[156] General and Local Acts of Ohio, 1911, sec. 7830, p. 130. Repealed February 17, 1914. Ibid., 1914, p. 109.

[157] Revised Statutes of Illinois, 1913, ch. 122, 509, p. 2267. In force July 1, 1909. Again found, Revised Statutes, 1917, ch. 122, 509, p. 2736.

[158] Statutes of Wisconsin, 1917, 40, 30, p. 375; ibid., 1915, ch. 27s. 447 (1863, c155 s55; 1866, c111 s6; 1869, c50 s1; 1871, c14 s1; R. S. 1878, s447; Suppl., 1906, s447; 1907, c118, 200; 1911, c409). Statutes of Wisconsin, 1913, ch. 27 s553 p-5, p. 335; ibid., 1917, s41.17 (1), p. 411. This law was repealed in 1917. The requirement was the same in 1915. Ibid., 1915, c275, s553, p-5, p. 335. In Wisconsin, in normal training courses in the high school, American history was required for at least one semester in the eleventh and twelfth grades.