teacher expectations and, 45–47
white supremacy and, 5, 6, 16–17, 75–76, 150, 182, 193–195, 200–204, 207
writing history and, 93–94
Agee, James, 65, 220 n. 40
Age of Gunpowder Empires, The (McNeill), 139
Alabama, 183
Alexander v. Holmes, 74
Alexie, Sherman, 136
Almo massacre (Idaho), 68–70
America: Pathways to the Present (Cayton et al.), 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 167
American Council of Trustees and Alumni, 7
American exceptionalism, 13–14, 138–139
American Indian Movement, 150
Americanization, 88
American Journey, The (Appleby et al.), 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
American Library Association (ALA), 5–6, 85
American Memory project, 82
American Pageant, The (Kennedy et al.), 15, 20, 33, 81, 116, 184, 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
Americans, The (Danzer et al.), 79, 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
Anand, Bernadette, 101
Anderson, Geoffrey M., 227 n. 28
Anderson Valley High School (Boonville, California), 101
Angelou, Maya, 154
Anthropology, 104, 116, 118
Antiracism, 171
Appleby, Joyce, 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
APUSH (Advanced Placement in U.S. History), 20, 32–34, 37, 62–63, 210
Archaeology, 104, 105–109
Arnold, Thomas K., 222 n. 8
Astronomy, 111
Au, Wayne, 18
Australia, 106
Aztecs, 125
Azug, Robert, 235 n. 3
Bach, J. S., 161
Bailey, Thomas A., 15, 215 n. 1, 215 n. 23, 234–235 n. 11
Ball, Edward, 173
Banks, C. A. M., x
Banks, James A., ix–xiii, 220 n. 36
Baraka, Amiri, 218 n. 10
Barlowe, Avram, 41
Baseball, 99, 189–190
Bataillon, Marcel, 232 n. 20
Benjamin, Caren, 214 n. 10
Benjamin, Jules, 89, 223 n. 13
Benjamin, Thomas, 232 n. 21
Bennett, Lerone, 86–87, 207, 222 n. 9
Benning, Henry L., 181
Bergmann, Leola, 198, 236 n. 14
Bering land bridge controversy, 103–109, 110, 225 n. 7
Berlin, Ira, 174, 232 n. 16
Bertelson, David, 232 n. 18
Best of History websites, 41
Bettersworth, John K., 3–6, 194, 213–214 n. 4–5, 236 n. 10
Beyond the Textbook (Kobrin), 18
Biddle, Nicholas, 22
Bigelow, Bill, 18
Birth of a Nation (movie), 186
Black Africans and Native Americans (Forbes), 107
Black English, 44–45, 218 n. 10, 219 n. 21
Black History Month, 161–162 “Black is Beautiful” movement, 46–47
Black Power U.S.A. (Bennett), 86, 207
Blacks. See African Americans
Blassingame, John, 174
Blaut, James, 139
Bleeding Kansas, 78
Blumenbach, J. F., 201–202
Bolivar, Simon, 171
Bolton, Reginald Pelton, 229–230 n. 7
Bond, Lloyd, 57
Book of Lists, The (Wallechinsky), 139
Boorstin, Daniel, 14, 22–24, 88, 215 n. 1, 215 n. 21, 223 n. 12, 234–235 n. 11
Borinski, Ernst, 220 n. 32
Botany, 104
Boyer, Paul, 215 n. 1, 221 n. 14, 234–235 n. 11
Brainstorming, 89
Bright, Charles, 224 n. 25
Brinkley, Alan, 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
Brodkin, Karen, 203, 236 n. 22
Broonzy, Big Bill, 46
Brophy, Jere, 219 n. 17
Brown, John, 71–72, 75, 191, 194, 206, 215 n. 2, 231 n. 6
Brown v. Board of Education, 3, 205
Bry, Theodore de, 90
Bryan, William Jennings, 185
BS (Bad Sociology) history, 4, 7
Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 70
Bush, George W., 25, 27, 50
Butterfield, Herbert, 113
Byrd, James, Jr., 215 n. 25
Cacciola, Scott, 220 n. 34
California, 38, 101, 195–196, 199–200
Carson, Rachel, 12–13
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 113, 171, 226 n. 20, 232 n. 20
Cass Lake-Bena High School (Minnesota), 100
Catholic Church, 130
Catholic University, 157, 158
Causation, in history, 11–12, 25
Cayton, Andrew, 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
Census information, ix–x, 97–98, 214 n. 12
Center for Survey Research, 7
Cesari, J., x
China, 125, 132, 133, 135, 227 n. 1
Chinese Americans, 45, 89, 90, 195–196
Christianity, 130, 227–228 n. 4
Chronological ethnocentrism, 113–121
costs of, 116–121
defined, 113
as form of presentism, 114
impact of, 120–121
primitive to civilized trend, 114–116
as rationale for imperialism, 113–114
Civil Liberties Act (1988), 15
Civil Rights Movement, 71–76, 80–81, 93, 101, 110, 150, 199, 204–206, 221 n. 15
Civil War, 2–4, 20, 26–27, 71–72, 78–79, 161, 162, 166. See also Reconstruction; Slavery; Southern secession
black soldiers in, 194–195, 198
Southern secession, 175–188
Clark, William, 12–13, 147–148
Clarke, Robin, 227 n. 24
Class Divided, A (PBS video), 64–65
Class size, 216 n. 4
Clay, Cassius, 173
Clayton, Elias, 16
Cleveland, Grover, 186
Clift, V. A., 231 n. 4
Clinton, Bill, 20
Clothing, 144, 146, 170–171
Clovis people, 107–108
Cody, Robert Tree, 136
Coffin, Levi, 173
Cognitive dissonance, 71–76, 136, 164, 194
Cohen, Lizabeth, 215 n. 1, 230 n. 16, 234–235 n. 11
Cold War, 20
Cole, Nancy S., 56–57
Coles, Edward, 173
College Board, 57
Columbus, Christopher, 23, 35, 66, 68, 108, 112–113, 128–136, 144, 152, 154, 202, 210, 215 n. 2, 225 n. 1
Common knowledge
cultural bias and, 50–51
social class and, 55–56
Community libraries, 97, 98
Community newspapers, 97
Compartmentalization, 111
Congressional Cemetery (Washington, D.C.), 94
Conley, Dalton, 158, 231 n. 2
Content analysis, 80–82
Crabtree, Charlotte, 214 n. 13
Credibility, 84–87, 104–105
Critical thinking, 12, 38–41, 46–47, 51, 85–86. See also Doing history; Historiography
Cultural anthropology, 104
Cultural bias
common knowledge and, 50–51
standardized tests and, 51–54
Cultural racism, 152–153
Curry, John Steuart, 72, 191
Dangerous Minds (movie), 62
Danzer, Gerald A., 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
Darling-Hammond, Linda, 220 n. 36
Davidson, James, 18
Davis, Jefferson, 78–79, 183
Davis, William C., 182, 188, 234 n. 10
Dawes Act (1887), 81
Deloria, Vine, 122
De Priest, Oscar, 205
DeVore, Irven, 120, 227 n. 31
Deyle, Steven, 175, 232–233 n. 1
Dialect, 151
Dialogue with the Past (Whitman), 101
Diamond, Jared, 127, 139, 228 n. 9
Diffusion, 23, 107, 110, 132–133
D
igital History, 174
Dillon, S., ix
Divine, Robert, 215 n. 2
Document-Based Questions (DBQ), 32–33
Doing history, 39, 83–102
credibility in, 84–87, 104–105
to critique history, 83–87
student guides, 89
verstehende and, 87, 146
writing a paper in, 87–101
Dorans, Neil J., 219 n. 23
Dorris, Michael, 141
Douglas, Stephen A., 79, 187, 233–234 n. 4–5
Douglas, William O., 159
Douglass, Frederick, 35–36, 174, 232 n. 16
Dred Scott decision, 175, 178, 233 n. 3–4
D’Souza, Dinesh, 219 n. 21
DuBois, Ellen, 82
Duke, David, 152
Duke, Lynne, 232 n. 24
Dumenil, Lynn, 82
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 162
Dyson, Michael Eric, 218 n. 10
Eastern Origins of Western Civilisation, The (Hobson), 139
Eastern Roman Empire, 125
Eaton, Susan, 59, 220 n. 31
Eck, Diana L., x
Edmonston, Charles, 170
Edmonston-Alston House (Charleston, South Carolina), 170
Education, defined, 153
Educational Testing Service (ETS), 37, 50–58, 128
Egypt, 109–110, 124–125, 126, 127, 164
Eight Eurocentric Historians (Blaut), 139
Elliott, Jane, 64–65
Emancipation Proclamation (Lincoln), 78–79, 186–187, 194
Epidemiology, 104, 112
Equal Rights Amendment, 95
Erickson, Clark, 108
Erickson, H. Lynn, 21, 215–216 n. 3
Escott, Paul, 166–167, 174
Ethnicity. See also names of specific ethnic groups
standardized tests and, 50–51
white ethnic groups, 200–204
Ethnocentrism, 137–138, 163
American exceptionalism and, 14
chronological, 113–121
defined, 13
reducing, 13
Eugenics, 201
Eurocentrism, 136–137, 139
Louisiana Purchase and, 147–149
syncretism and, 23, 132–136, 137–139, 143
European dominance, 123–140
Columbus and, 128–136
explaining civilization, 127–128
ideological results of, 136–137
questions concerning, 123–124
survey of world history, 124–126
world voyages and flat earth myth, 128–136
Evolution, 112
Farley, Reynolds, 235 n. 6
Faulkner, William, 42
Faust, Drew Gilpin, 234 n. 8
Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe, 125, 228 n. 6
Festinger, Leon, 71–75, 221 n. 5, 231 n. 12
Field Foundation, 50
Fields, Barbara J., 44, 218 n. 9
Field trips, 94
Fifteenth Amendment, 75, 178, 193
Figlio, David N., 44–45, 47, 218 n. 12
File folder phenomenon, 43
Finch, James, 229–230 n. 7
Firestorm hypothesis, 108
First Amendment, 5–6
Flat earth myth, 128–131
Florida, 183
Folkways (Sumner), 193–194
Foner, Eric, 76, 82, 86–87, 207–208, 221 n. 9, 222 n. 9
Football, 198
Forbes, Jack, 107, 226 n. 10
Fourteenth Amendment, 178, 193, 195
France, 125, 147–149
Francis, Peter, Jr., 229–230 n. 7
Franklin, John Hope, 82
Freund, David M. P., 236 n. 24
Friede, Juan, 232 n. 20
Frister, Robert A., 235 n. 2
From Slavery to Freedom (Franklin & Moss), 82
From Sundown to Sunup (Rawick), 173
Gagnon, Paul, 14, 215 n. 22
Gallagher, Michael, 221 n. 12
Garraty, John A., 221 n. 12
Garrison, William Lloyd, 71
Gender
names and, 156–157
standardized tests and, 54
student achievement and, 43, 49, 54
Genetics, 104, 107–108
Georgia, 181, 183
Germany, 125, 205
Gess, Denise, 223 n. 22
Gettysburg Address (Lincoln), 187
Gifted and talented programs, 44
Gilded Age, 197
Giovanni, Nikki, 218 n. 10
Giraldi, Giovanni Battista, 163
Give Me Liberty (Foner), 82
Glottochronology, 104
Gone with the Wind (Mitchell), 84–87, 151, 171
Gone with the Wind (movie), 85–86, 90, 186
Good, Thomas, 219 n. 17
Goodheart, Adam, 221 n. 7
Goodman, Andrew, 71
Gordon-Reed, Annette, 231 n. 1
Grade point average (GPA), 52, 56
Graduate Record Examination (GRE), 50, 58
Graham, Joseph, 229–230 n. 7
Grand Canyon (IMAX documentary), 144–145
Grant, Madison, 197, 236 n. 13
Grant, Ulysses S., 235 n. 8
Great Depression, 39, 62, 198
Greeley, Horace, 187
Grimké sisters, 173
Gross, Ruth B., 232 n. 19
Grumet, Robert S., 229–230 n. 7
Guns, Germs, and Steel (Diamond), 127, 139
Haines, Francis, 229 n. 3
Haiti, 132, 144
Hakim, Joy, 82
Hammurabi, 124
Harney, Lindsay, 99–100, 224–225 n. 32
Harris, William, 231 n. 11
Harrison, Benjamin, 193, 198
Hart, Betty, 60, 220 n. 33
Harvard University, 2, 47–48, 49–50, 58, 63
Harvey, Dale, 42–43, 217 n. 3, 217 n. 5
Havilland, Olivia de, 85–86, 90, 222 n. 8
Hawthorne effect, 48, 63
Hayes, Rutherford B., 192
Hegel, Georg W. F., 11, 214 n. 15
Helping Your Child Learn History, 92
Hemings, Sally, 155–157, 231 n. 1
Henry of Portugal, 132
Hielscher, Gebhard, 215 n. 23
Hilton, Paris, 115
Hindley, Geoffrey, 227 n. 24
Hispanic Americans, 207
cultural bias and, 53–54
teacher expectations and, 45–47
Hispaniola, 132
Historiography, 12–13, 17, 68–82, 211
cognitive dissonance and, 71–76
content analysis in, 80–82
defined, 68
incorrect information and, 68–70
questioning myths, 78–80
studying bad history, 76–80
History
bringing students along, 38–41
causation in, 11–12, 25
class participation and, 34–35
contemporary relevance of, 25–28
critique of. See Historiography
deep thinking and, 23–25
doing. See Doing history; Historiography
importance to society, 15–17
importance to students, 10–15, 34–36
key topics in, 19–23, 40, 88
principal role and, 30–32, 67
questioning myths in, 78–80
reasons to teach “as usual,” 32–36
skills needed for, 28–30
social studies versus, 1, 29, 213 n. 1
student attitudes toward, 10, 33–34
support for teachers, 30–32, 36–38
as tool of liberation or oppression, 65–66
History Channel, 224 n. 30
History Matters, 41
History News Network, 41
History of the American People, A (Johnson), 82
History of the United States, A (Boorstin & Kelley), 14, 22, 23–24, 88, 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
History of US, A (Hakim), 82
&nbs
p; Historyteacher.net, 37–38
Hitler, Adolf, 205
Hobbes, Thomas, 118, 227 n. 25
Hobson, John M., 139
Holland, Paul W., 219 n. 23
Holt American Nation (Boyer), 24–25, 79, 81, 183, 215 n. 1, 234–235 n. 11
Holy Roman Empire, 125
Home ownership, 152, 158–159
Hoover, Herbert, 39
Horses, 143
Horton, James Oliver, 187
Horvat, Andrew, 215 n. 23
Houser, Alan, 136
Hulser, Kathleen, 215 n. 24
Human genetics, 104, 107–108
Humanities Net (h-net), 37
IB (International Baccalaureate), 62
Idaho, 68–70
If You Grew Up with George Washington, 170–171
Ignatiev, Noel, 236 n. 22
Illinois, 38–39, 60–61, 99–100
Immigration, ix, 88, 89, 103–122, 195–196
archaeological issues, 105–109
Bering land bridge controversy, 103–109, 110, 225 n. 7
chronological ethnocentrism and, 113–121
presentism and, 109–121
white ethnic groups, 200–204
Imperialism, 113–114, 196–197, 205
Incas, 125
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (Jacobs), 173
Income gap, 158
Index of Dissimilarity (D), 190–192, 235 n. 4
India, 133, 164, 205
Individual racism, 152
In Relentless Pursuit of an Education, 101, 208
Institutional racism, 152
Internet, 84, 94, 97–98, 104–105
Interviews, 95–97
Iowa eye-color experiment, 64–65
IQ, 43, 47–49, 51, 58, 60, 63
Iraq, 25–26, 127
Irving, Washington, 129
Isabella, Queen, 128–129
Islam, x, 125, 126, 132, 135
Italy, 125
Jackson, Andrew, 22, 38, 170
Jackson, Elmer, 16
Jackson, Kenneth T., 229–230 n. 7, 230 n. 16
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