Public opinion and the teaching of history in the United States

by Bessie Louise Pierce

[445] Minutes of the Fifth Annual Meeting and Reunion of the Confederate Veterans ... 1895, p. 13.

[446] Ibid., p. 15. The Committee of 1895 added to the list of acceptable textbooks drawn up in 1894 the History of the United States by Susan P. Lee.

[447] In the meeting held in 1896 the following histories received endorsement: School History of the United States, by J. William Jones, D. D. of Virginia, Brief History of the United States, by Susan Pendleton Lee of Virginia, Our Country, A History of the States, by Oscar H. Cooper and others of Texas. Minutes ... of the United Confederate Veterans, ... 1896, pp. 28-50.

[448] Minutes ... of the United Confederate Veterans ... 1897, p. 49. See also Journal ... of the Grand Army of the Republic ... 1897, p. 233. The activities of the G. A. R. are discussed later.

[449] Minutes ... of the United Confederate Veterans ..., op. cit., p. 46.

[450] Ibid.

[451] Minutes ... of the United Confederate Veterans ... 1898, p. 87.

[452] Ibid., pp. 44-52.

[453] Ibid.

[454] Ibid.