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385 Gary J. Kornblith and Carol Lasser, "'The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth': Writing, Producing, and Using College-Level American History Textbooks." Journal of American History Vol. 91, No. 4, March 2005, p. 1380.
386 Frances FitzGerald, America Revised: History Schoolbooks in the Twentieth Century (New York: Vintage Books, 1980 [1979]), p. 19.
387 Diane Ravitch, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn (New York: Knopf, 2003), p. 140.
388 Sam Wineburg, "Shouldn't Teachers of History Have Maj'ored in History?" Los Angeles Times. 24 February 2005. Online at http://hnn.us/roundup/com-ments/10444.html [emphasis added]
390 FitzGerald, op.cit., pp. 48, 50.
391 Jonathan Zimmerman, Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002), p. 35.
394 FitzGerald, op.cit., p. 59.
396 Zimmerman, op.cit., p. 19-20.
397 FitzGerald, op.cit., p. 78.
398 Beard and Beard, The Rise of American Civilization, op.cit., Vol. I, pp. 332-333.
401 Zimmerman, op.cit., p. 58.
402 FitzGerald, op.cit., p. 35.
404 Zimmerman, op.cit., p. 66.
406 FitzGerald, op.cit., p. 37. See also Zimmerman, op.cit., p. 67.
407 Zimmerman, op.cit., p. 66.
408 FitzGerald, op.cit., p. 37.
410 Zimmerman, op.cit., p. 47.
411 FitzGerald, op.cit., p. 38.
413 Zimmerman, op.cit., p. 126.
414 FitzGerald, op.cit., p. 24.
416 FitzGerald, op.cit., p.96.
418 James J. Martin, "History as Bunk," The Libertarian Review March 1980, p. 41.
420 FitzGerald, op.cit., p. 131.
421 Zimmerman, op.cit., pp. 6, 10.
426 Michael Kazin, "Howard Zinn's History Lessons," Dissent Spring 2004. Online at http://www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/articles/w104/kazin.htm
427 Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States, 1492-Present. Twentieth Anniversary Edition. (New York: HarperCollins, 1999), p. 658.
430 Ibid., pp. 188-189, 191, 198.
438 Eric Foner, Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World (New York: Hill & Wang, 2002), p. 4.
439 Novick, op.cit., pp. 418-420.
440 Foner, Give Me Liberty!, op.cit., pp. 524, 527, 528.
445 Thomas E.Woods, Jr., "Response to My Critics." 12 April 2005. Online at http://www.lewrockwell.com/woods/woods39.html
446 Joseph Moreau, "The American Textbook Wars: The Revised Version." History News Network, 23 May 2005. Online at http://hnn.us/articles/11778.html
447 Ronald Radosh, "Why Conservatives Are So Upset with Thomas Woods's Politically Incorrect History Book." History News Network, 7 March 2005. Online at http://hnn.us/articles/10493.html
448 Adam Cohen, "Editorial Observer: The Difference Between Politically Incorrect and Historically Wrong." New York Times 26 January 2005: A16. Online at http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/9852.html
449 Eric Muller, "What You Should Know About the Author of the NYT Bestseller, Politically Incorrect Guide to American History" History News Network, 7 February 2005. Online at http://hnn.us/articles/10007.html
450 Thomas E. Woods, Jr., The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History (Washington, DC: Regnery, 2004), pp. 65, 67, 62.
453 Radosh, "Why Conservatives Are So Upset." op.cit.
454 Bernard Chapin, "History and Truth: An Interview with Thomas E. Woods, Jr." 23 July 2005. Online at http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/chapin4.html
455 Paul Gottfried, "Tom and His Predictable Detractor." 20 April 2005. Online at http://www.lewrockwell.com/gottfried/gottfried76.html
456 Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen, A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror (New York: Sentinel, 2004), pp. 294, 257, 302.
462 Anthony Gregory, "Situational Totalitarianism." 16 August 2005. Online at http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory87.html
463 Gore Vidal, "How I Do What I Do If Not Why" in At Home, op.cit., p. 275.
465 Thomas L. Haskell, Objectivity Is Not Neutrality: Explanatory Schemes in History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), pp. 150, 54, 151, 152.
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