Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools / Edition 1

Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools / Edition 1

by Jonathan Zimmerman
ISBN-10:
0674018605
ISBN-13:
9780674018600
Pub. Date:
11/30/2005
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10:
0674018605
ISBN-13:
9780674018600
Pub. Date:
11/30/2005
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools / Edition 1

Whose America?: Culture Wars in the Public Schools / Edition 1

by Jonathan Zimmerman
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Overview

As a result of years of urging from ethnic groups, textbooks and curricula now offer an inclusive account of American progress in freedom and justice. However, moral and religious education remain on much thornier ground. Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of compromise and conflict over the teaching of history and morality in 20th-century America.


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ISBN-13: 9780674018600
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 11/30/2005
Pages: 318
Product dimensions: 5.06(w) x 7.94(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Zimmerman is professor of history of education and the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Second Edition
Introduction: Beyond Dayton and Chicago

Part 1: History Wars
Chapter 1: Ethnicity and the History Wars
Chapter 2: Struggles over Race and Sectionalism
Chapter 3: Social Studies Wars in New Deal America
Chapter 4: The Cold War Assault on Textbooks
Chapter 5: Black Activism, White Resistance, and Multiculturalism

Part 2: God in the Schools
Chapter 6: Religious Education in Public Schools
Chapter 7: School Prayer and the Conservative Revolution
Chapter 8: The Battle for Sex Education

Part 3: From Religion to History
Chapter 9: Twenty-First-Century Culture Wars: From 9/11 to Donald Trump
Conclusion: Who Are We Now?
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

Whose America? is original in its historical argument, thorough in its scholarship, lively in its style, and timely in its subject. It cuts through the polarized rhetoric of the culture wars and shows the virtue of controversy: "debating our differences may be the only thing that holds us together."

David Tyack

Whose America? is original in its historical argument, thorough in its scholarship, lively in its style, and timely in its subject. It cuts through the polarized rhetoric of the culture wars and shows the virtue of controversy: "debating our differences may be the only thing that holds us together."
David Tyack, Professor of Education and History, Stanford University

Diane Ravitch

Jonathan Zimmerman's provocative book reminds us that the passionately argued "culture wars" in American public schools have a long history in America's public schools. Whose America? illuminates those battles, old and new, with impressive scholarship and story-telling, and deep understanding of the combatants on all sides.
Diane Ravitch, Research Professor, New York University School of Education

Jeffrey Mirel

Jonathan Zimmerman has written a terrific book. Beautifully written and deeply informed, Whose America? addresses issues in American education, politics and identity that are enormously important. It is the best study yet done of political battles about curriculum, how political horse-trading on all sides has shaped the nature and substance of textbook versions of history, and it has great relevance to debates currently raging about what is taught in schools, in matters of facts and values. On these inflammatory subjects, Zimmerman's even-handed treatment of all sides of these deeply divisive issues is one of the book's great strengths, and offers a lesson in itself to future historians.
Jeffrey Mirel, Professor of Educational Studies and History, University of Michigan

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