History in the Making

<b>The popular thought-provoking study that explores how contemporary prejudices change the way each generation looks at the nation's past (<i>Library Journal</i>).</b><br> <br> Historian Kyle Ward the acclaimed co-author of <i>History Lessons</i> offers another fascinating look at the biases inherent in the way we think about write about and teach our own history. Juxtaposing passages from US history textbooks of different eras <i>History in the Making</i> provides new perspectives on familiar historical events and sheds light on the ways they have been represented over generations.<br> <br> Covering subjects that span two hundred years from Columbus's arrival to the Boston Massacre from women's suffrage to Japanese internment <i>History in the Making</i> exposes the changing values priorities and points of view that have framed-and reframed-our past.<br> <br> Interesting and useful . . . convincingly illustrates how texts change as social and political attitudes evolve. -<i>Booklist</i><br> <br> Students teachers and general readers will learn more about the past from these passages than from any single work however current that purports to monopolize the truth. -Ray Raphael author of <i>Founding Myths</i>