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Va. orders history textbook review -- finally
The Virginia Board of Education has finally taken the first step toward removing two elementary school history textbooks that it had earlier approved despite many errors.
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03:16 PM ET, 01/13/2011 |
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McPherson on slavery and Virginia's governor
Civil War expert James McPherson says that Virginia Gov. McDonnell had it wrong when he indicated that slavery was not “most significant” for Virginia as an issue during the Civil War period. Let's hope Virginia's student learn Civil War history the way McPherson teaches it.
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06:04 PM ET, 04/07/2010 |
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