Public opinion and the teaching of history in the United States

by Bessie Louise Pierce

[465] Ibid.

[466] Ibid. This appeared in large black-faced type in the Report.

[467] Ibid., p. 12.

[468] Ibid., p. 13.

[469] Ibid.

[470] Ibid.

[471] Ibid.

[472] Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual Reunion.

[473] Minutes ... United Confederate Veterans, 1921, p. 11. Report of the Rutherford Committee, October 24, 1921, C. Irvine Walker, general chairman.

[474] The New York Times, June 21, 1922. Miss Rutherford’s ideas had been endorsed by the United Confederate Veterans in Atlanta, October 7-11, 1919. See A Measuring Rod for Text-Books prepared by Miss Rutherford (Athens, Georgia). This pamphlet sought to establish some of the facts later brought out in Truths of History.