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A measuring rod to test text books... in schools..
This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarship.
32 pages, Paperback
Published December 31, 1919
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September 30, 2021
I marked this as nonfiction, but the whole "test" was created to fictionalize and romanticize the Confederacy and slavery. I can't help but worry that groups today have updated and adapted this for their own use in going after books on public schools. Some still believe in the "lost cause," while others want to say ridiculous things like slavery wasn't that bad. One group says that stories about racism, in order to be taught in schools, must explicitly discuss the progress we've made today or it has no business being taught to kids. This book is the template for things we see today.
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