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| Errors Plague Textbook for Virginia 4th Graders Posted by Michael E. Marotta on 1/17, 8:10am | ||
From freedom of religion to Black Confederate soldiers, the author got her facts from the Internet, which is appropriate as this story is all over the Internet now. "Subsequently, another error was spotted regarding a claim that brown bears live in the Blue Ridge Mountains, when in fact only black bears inhabit that area." (Wikipedia here.)"It is extremely misleading to give the title 'In God We Trust' to the brief section on the Act for Establishing Religious Freedom in Virginia. That's exactly what Thomas Jefferson did not propose and what the General Assembly did not enact," said former Library of Virginia historian Brent Tarter on his nearly 20-page list of errors."The book claims that thousands of slaves fought for the Confederacy, including two battalions under Stonewall Jackson. "Masoff said one of her sources was Ervin Jordan, a University of Virginia historian who said he has documented evidence -- in the form of 19th-century newspapers and personal letters -- of some African Americans fighting for the Confederacy. But in an interview, Jordan said the account in the fourth-grade textbook went far beyond what his research can support. "There's no way of knowing that there were thousands," Jordan said. "And the claim about Jackson is totally false. I don't know where that came from." (Washington Post story here.) This first came to me via the E-Sylum weekly maillist of the Numismatic Bibilomania Society which cited Virginia Board of Education presses publisher of mistake ridden textbooks (www2.godanriver.com/news/2011/jan/13/3/virginia-board-education-presses-publisher-mistake-ar-772546/) | ||
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