Teachers’ curriculum guides looked quite similar to the students’ editions of the books, except they were even more terse. For
example, Clair Byers Wilson wrote a comprehensive teachers’ guide that could be used from the first to eighth grades, and it
begins as follows: [1]
The bottom of the page reads: [2]
Of course, the outline was intended primarily for the instructor’s use, not for the students’. The students were expected to learn in
a strictly chronological, rather than thematic or other manner. Albert Sherman Lee’s guide, U.S. History: The Facts Condensed,
appears to start out in a rather similar manner: [3]
Sources
[1] Clair Byers Wilson, Outline of U.S. History (Clearfield, Pennsylvania: Kurtz Bros., 1918), 1.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Albert Sherman Lee, U.S. History: The Facts Condensed (Huntington, West Virginia: Self-published, 1921), 1.
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Introduction: Overview of the Teaching of History
How History Has Usually Been Taught
Students’ History Textbooks in Progressive-Era America
What Can We Do to Make History More Exciting for Our Children and Teenagers?