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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 12. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones). Search the whole document.
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Five Forks (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 58
Harper's Ferry (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 58
Maryland (Maryland, United States) (search for this): chapter 58
Is the Eclectic history of the United States a proper book to use in our schools?
We promised in our last issue to fully ventilate this question, and asked that teachers, Confederate soldiers and others in position to know would send us their opinions.
We have several responses, and among them the following from Colonel William Allan, superintendent of McDonogh Institute, Maryland.
To those who know Colonel Allan, no words from us are necessary to enhance the value of his opinions upon this question.
A distinguished Master of Arts of the University of Virginia, and for several years a teacher in one of the best academies in Virginia.
For some years after the war one of the accomplished professors whom General Lee called around him to make Washington College an institution of such high grade, and for several years the able and efficient head of McDonogh Institute, Colonel Allan stands in the very forefront of practical teachers, and his opinions about text-books are of hi
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): chapter 58
United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 58
Is the Eclectic history of the United States a proper book to use in our schools?
We promised in our last issue to fully ventilate this question, and asked that teachers, Confederate soldiers and others in position to know would send us their opinions.
We have several responses, and among them the following from Colonel Wil as a brief and general statement of the character of this book) before going into our own more detailed citation of its errrors.
The Eclectic history of the United States, by M. E. Thalheimer. [A Review, by Colonel William Allan.]
This book is one of those worthless school histories which we suppose will be written and printe facts, and the description it gives of historical characters.
A single instance will illustrate.
On page 268 we find the following: The Supreme Court of the United States decided that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, and that slaves might be carried into any territory of the Union.
But this was contrary to the ordi
Virginia (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 58
Kansas (Kansas, United States) (search for this): chapter 58
Jackson (Mississippi, United States) (search for this): chapter 58
Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 58
Chancellorsville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 58