Truths beyond the text books
6/9/19
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from TIME Magazine,
6/6/19:
The ‘Counter-Textbooks’ Offering Kids a Radical Look at History.
Beacon Press’ ReVisioning American History series–in which each book tells the nation’s story through the lens of a marginalized group–the authors kept getting the same question, usually from a teacher: Is there a version of this for kids?
“They are hungry for resources,” says Beacon senior editor Joanna Green. “They know their students want something that’s more radical.”
So Beacon is responding, starting with A Queer History of the United States for Young People. The adapted version of a 2011 book by Michael Bronski.
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