The Indian in American History Textbooks

Value judgments in textbooks: The coefficient of evaluation as a quantitative measure

“…California (Stampp, 1964) and Michigan (Textbooks... , 1968) commissioned studies of their own, and the U.S. Congress Subcommittee on De Facto School Segregation held hearings on Books for Schools and the Treatment of Minorities (United States Congress, 1966). During the 1960s attention also began to be paid to treatment of the American Indian in history textbooks (Henry, 1967;Vogel, 1968;Wilson, 1966).…”