Public opinion and the teaching of history in the United States

by Bessie Louise Pierce

[392] Dotey, op. cit.

[393] Ibid.

[394] Ibid., CXII. Mr. Horwitz resigned his position in 1920.

[395] “Freedom of Teaching in the New York City Schools,” School and Society, Vol. IX (February 1, 1919), pp. 142-143; also Dotey, op. cit., LXXXVII.

[396] The New York Times, January 19, 1919. Also Department of Education of the City of New York, In the Matter of the Trial of Charges of Conduct Unbecoming a teacher and to the prejudice of good order, efficiency and discipline preferred against Benjamin Glassberg.... Brief and Argument of Gilbert E. Roe in Behalf of Benjamin Glassberg, Teacher (New York), pp. 7-8.

[397] Ibid. Mr. Gilbert E. Roe, counsel for Mr. Glassberg, intimated that the boys who had been selected to testify against Mr. Glassberg had been chosen “according to race and religion,” that Mr. Glassberg, a Socialist and a Jew, had “guided his classes along the road of true Americanism” during the War and had received from his superiors “the highest ratings possible for his work.” See also Dotey, op. cit., LXXXVII.

[398] Trachtenberg, Alexander, ed., The American Labor Year Book 1919-1920 (New York, 1920), Vol. III, p. 89.

[399] The New York Times, May 25, 1922. According to a statement of Superintendent William L. Ettinger.

[400] Trachtenberg, op. cit., p. 88.

[401] The New York Times, January 19, 1921.