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Evidence of bias and censorship in college history survey textbooks.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Evidence of bias and censorship in college history survey textbooks./
Author:	Goodwin, James Gregory.
Description:	160 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1038.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International60-04A.
Subject:	Education, Higher. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9929273
ISBN:	0599291206

Evidence of bias and censorship in college history survey textbooks.
Goodwin, James Gregory.

Evidence of bias and censorship in college history survey textbooks. - 160 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 60-04, Section: A, page: 1038.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--University of Houston, 1999.

This study, a line-by-line examination of text and images, reveals that there is bias and censorship in at least these few of America's college history survey textbooks, regarding religion and its influence in shaping America. Bias and censorship in the context of this study means either the absence or distortion of American religious history, especially contemporary (the last three centuries) mainstream Protestantism. Because the eighteen collaborating authors of these five sets of textbooks grew up, acquired their varied academic credentials and teach on college campuses across the nation, these texts are considered representative and not anomalies.

ISBN: 0599291206Subjects--Topical Terms:

543175
Education, Higher.

Evidence of bias and censorship in college history survey textbooks.
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520 $a This study, a line-by-line examination of text and images, reveals that there is bias and censorship in at least these few of America's college history survey textbooks, regarding religion and its influence in shaping America. Bias and censorship in the context of this study means either the absence or distortion of American religious history, especially contemporary (the last three centuries) mainstream Protestantism. Because the eighteen collaborating authors of these five sets of textbooks grew up, acquired their varied academic credentials and teach on college campuses across the nation, these texts are considered representative and not anomalies.
520 $a There are a number of diverse opinions as to how this textbook bias and censorship has surfaced, especially considering America's rich religious heritage, including a widespread contemporary mainstream Protestantism profoundly impacting society. These diverse opinions each have merit: Carter claims that religion has been "trivialized"; Dalin says it is the result of "strict separationists"; DelFattore asserts it is the result of "fundamentalists" and "politically correct" extremists; McCarthy declares that there has been a "second establishment," this time secular humanism which he calls "civil religion"; and, Nord affirms that this situation is the result of the dominant "secular cultural and intellectual institutions," including both publishers and the Supreme Court.
520 $a To gather the material in a systematic way, this work closely adheres to Paul C. Vitz's examination of primary and secondary school textbooks and the most comprehensive study available, Censorship: Evidence of Bias in Our Children's Textbooks, Servant Books, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1986, with some variations and additions.
520 $a The culmination of this dissertation is over forty pages of "Tables," clearly disclosing the exact nature of the treatment of religion in America over the past four hundred years, as garnered from the college history survey textbooks examined for this study. The "distancing" away from mainstream Protestantism takes several forms: by religious character, such as Joseph Smith, a Mormon, by culture and/or geography, as with Native Americans or India's Gandhi, and time, as there is usually incrementally more information available about American religion and societal implications as the textbook history describes earlier eras so that distortions and omissions are usually less apparent.
520 $a Of almost five thousand pages of history text and eighteen hundred images, a total of less than fifty incidents and images, covering the last three hundred years, may be considered mainstream American Protestant. This dissertation clearly reveals that our progressive and liberal society, including educators, publishers and the Supreme Court, largely reflecting America's secularization, has resulted in the bias and censorship apparent in our college United States survey history textbooks, manifest by the omissions and distortions of America's religious history and influence.
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