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Toward More Catholic History in Our Schools
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Using primary documents in the classroom develops skills in critical thinking and historical imagination-and fills in gaps in U.S. history textbooks
In a 1996 issue of The History Teacher, Historian Peter Boyer posed the question, "Is religion systematically excluded from United States history textbooks and survey courses?" His answer? Yes. Particularly at the high school level, the role of religion in shaping the American experience was downplayed in history courses. Boyer's essay showed that while many critics bemoaned the lack of religion in history courses for broader moral and ideological reasons, the criticism was in fact true on strictly intellectual and historical grounds …
