Item Detail
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32837
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0
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15
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English
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Utah History Textbooks and Utah History
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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January 2023
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91
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1
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56-70
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"From The Making of a State: A School History of Utah, published in 1908, to Utah Our Home, published in 2011, schoolchildren have learned Utah history from fourteen textbooks. This article reviews those books, sketches their legal and institutional context, recounts public arguments about them, and notes how their accounts of Utah history have changed. In their views and outlook, Utah history texts have followed United States history texts and Utah historical writing. Over the century and more they have been written, Utah texts have become broader in focus and more inclusive in coverage. Texts published in the past fifty years show Native Americans more respect and non-Mormons more attention than earlier texts did. School history texts have become more critical of Latter-day Saints and pay less attention to them. In fact, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is barely mentioned in recent textbook accounts of Utah history after statehood. I argue that this reduced attention to Latter-day Saints has led authors to overlook important developments in Utah politics and misrepresent contemporary Utah." [Author]
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A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Neither Poet Nor Prophet
Placing Juanita Brooks Among the Heroes [or Villains] of Mormon and Utah History
Social Accommodation in Utah
The Evolution of History: Changing Narratives of the Mountain Meadows Massacre in Utah's Public School Curricula
The Founding of Utah
The Making of a State : A School History of Utah
The Peoples of Utah
The Story of Utah, the Beehive State
The Utah Story
Utah, A Journey of Discovery
Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History
Utah in Her Western Setting
Utah's Heritage
Utah's History