Sentences with phrase «out of my history textbooks»

We're talking about a state that wants to take evolution out of its science textbooks and Thomas Jefferson out of the history textbooks for being too much of a «radical.»

How could this have been left out of my history textbooks, and why hadn't I ever played with a Nellie Bly doll — complete with her infamous checked overcoat and wool ghillie cap — instead of Barbie?

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The Heritage of World Civilizations: I picked up the seventh edition of this college textbook for $ 4 at a used bookstore because I liked the pictures and because it was stressing me out that I was losing to my little sister in the history category of JEOPARDY.

Those who are indigenous to this land we call «The United States of America» have been long misrepresented and pushed out of American history textbooks in favor of glorifying those who now rule this nation and represent the dominant culture.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The GOP is following the Whigs (whose brilliant beginnings are now forgotten since they sold out against their conscience on the issues of slavery and manifest destiny) into the dilapidated dustbin of history, and will be commemorated in future history textbooks as the party whose decline began when they sold out to ignorance and religious extremism.

He and his wife, Dr. Kristin Thompson (who has a book coming out called «Frodo, Fantasy and Franchises: The Lord of the Rings and Modern Hollywood»), are also the authors of the two most popular film textbooks, «Film Art» and «Film History.»

Their textbook is now out of print, in part because of its allegedly old - fashioned telling of American history.

With her fourth - and fifth - grade students, Brunelle pulls out a history textbook and asks students to examine the portrayal of Native Americans.

These educators were not just teaching students about the history of black life in America, they were showing them what their textbooks had left out, and therefore how whites controlled knowledge in the United States.

Habitat will allow, for example, a college's Art History department to collaborate and create their own art history textbook, freezing the publishers out of the market and allowing for easily tailoring the textbook to the department's currHistory department to collaborate and create their own art history textbook, freezing the publishers out of the market and allowing for easily tailoring the textbook to the department's currhistory textbook, freezing the publishers out of the market and allowing for easily tailoring the textbook to the department's curriculum.

The premise of the show is to bring out subaltern histories, things that are not taught in our textbooks, that exist but haven't been always named.