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Nineteenth Century Origins of the Social Studies Movement: Understanding the Continuity between Older and Contemporary Civic and U.S. History Textbooks.
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Barth, James L.; Shermis, S. Samuel – Theory and Research in Social Education, 1980
Compares selected United States history and civics textbooks from the 19th century with textbooks written from 1960 to 1980. Findings from this comparison indicated that despite differences in size and emphasis, stress and artistic appearance, United States history and civics texts of the present are essentially what they have always…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Civics, Comparative Analysis, Educational Assessment