[535] Journal of the Forty-Fourth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic ... 1910, p. 219. The Phil Sheridan Post No. 4, G. A. R., joined with the Sons of the American Revolution in 1922 in an effort to eliminate West’s History of the American People from the acceptable textbooks of the Boise, Idaho, schools. In addition to criticisms regarding West’s discussion of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, the Veterans objected to the treatment of the Civil War period. See p. 265 and the Idaho Statesman, December 9, 1922.
[536] The controversy related to Public School Number 5. The Public School Society was organized in 1805 and gradually extended its activities until 1853, when it gave its buildings and property to the City Board of Education. See Bourne, William Oland, History of the Public School Society of the City of New York (New York, 1870), p. 324 et seq.
[537] Ibid., p. 324. No action was taken at that time, but a Roman Catholic teacher was employed for Public School Number 5.
[538] Ibid., p. 325.
[539] Ibid., p. 328.
[540] Ibid.
[541] Ibid., p. 331.
[542] Ibid.
[543] Ibid., p. 342.
[544] Deshon, George, “A Novel Defence of the Public School,” The Catholic World, Vol. L (February, 1890), pp. 677-687.