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"The Music Is Nothing If The Audience Is Deaf": Moving Historical Thinking Into The Wider World, Linda K. Salvucci
"The Music Is Nothing If The Audience Is Deaf": Moving Historical Thinking Into The Wider World, Linda K. Salvucci
History Faculty Research
Readers of Historically Speaking are certainly no strangers to practicing and reflecting upon “historical thinking”; witness the 2008 publication of several essays and interviews in the Historians in Conversation series, as well as explicit or implicit references to its nature and process in virtually all recent issues. Still, most academic historians, scholars, and authors of popular works of history rarely connect with what goes on in terms of historical thinking in K 12 classrooms in more than a casual usually parental way. To be sure, ongoing controversies such as those involving the Texas social studies standards, the role assigned to …
"Everybody’S Alamo": Revolution In The Revolution, Texas Style, Linda K. Salvucci
"Everybody’S Alamo": Revolution In The Revolution, Texas Style, Linda K. Salvucci
History Faculty Research
In the fall of 2000, I did what once seemed unthinkable: I willingly began to teach a first-year seminar, "Remembering the Alamo: Myth, Memory and History." Few veteran instructors of the U.S. history survey might question my desire to take a break from that always challenging responsibility. But why would a female "Yankee" whose research involves Atlantic trades and empires settle upon such an unlikely topic? To some extent, the answer is personal, and represents my slow coming to terms with the universal symbol of the city I have called home since 1985. Yet my intensified commitment to remembering the …
Getting The Facts Straight: New Views Of Mexico And Its Peoples In Recently Adopted U.S. History Textbooks In Texas, Linda K. Salvucci
Getting The Facts Straight: New Views Of Mexico And Its Peoples In Recently Adopted U.S. History Textbooks In Texas, Linda K. Salvucci
History Faculty Research
Every six years, the Texas State Board of Education holds public hearings as part of the complex process of "adopting" or approving primary and secondary school textbooks for free distribution to over 1,100 public school districts. Publishers vie to capture a share of this extremely large and lucrative market by placing their products in one of usually five approved slots in each subject category. The significance of the textbook approval process extends far beyond the borders of the Lone Star State, since sales of titles successful in Texas often soar nationwide as well. In an interesting coincidence, the commemoration of …
Mexico, Mexicans And Mexican Americans In Secondary-School United States History Textbooks, Linda K. Salvucci
Mexico, Mexicans And Mexican Americans In Secondary-School United States History Textbooks, Linda K. Salvucci
History Faculty Research
It is now rather commonplace to decry the poor quality of United States history textbooks at the university and precollegiate levels. Criticisms range from the general to the specific. While the first include such practices as "dumbing down" (that is, the rewriting of texts for a lower reading level than their intended audience should have already attained), the second focus more directly upon content. Often inspired by well-defined political agendas, these criticisms encompass issues of inclusion or omission of certain topics and the endorsement of particular values or behavior. Special-interest lobbying to change textbook content is well worth the effort, …