Not Written in Stone

<b>A teaching edition of the thought-provoking study <i>History in the Making</i> which explores how our view of the history changes over time (<i>Library Journal</i>).</b><br> <br> Kyle Ward's celebrated <i>History in the Making</i> struck a chord among readers of popular history. Interesting and useful according to<i> Booklist</i> the book convincingly illustrates how texts change as social and political attitudes evolve. With excerpts from history textbooks that span two hundred years <i>History in the Making</i> looks at the different ways textbooks from different eras interpret and present the same historical events.<br> <br><i>Not Written in Stone</i> offers an abridged and annotated version of <i>History in the Making</i> specifically designed for classroom use. In each section Ward provides an overview questions for discussions and analysis and then a fascinating chronological sampling of textbook excerpts which reveal the striking differences between textbooks over time.<br> <br> An exciting new teaching tool <i>Not Written in Stone</i> is destined to become a staple of classroom teaching about the American past.<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>