Biography
My dissertation is on the textbook industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through a careful analysis of the internal documents of boards of education, the company ABC, and public controversies in the news I argue that consolidation in the industry made change to the textbook difficult. What underlay the concerns over content of textbooks were a handful of companies and authors. While scholars of textbook history focus on the conciliations made to groups like the American Legion and
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