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Title: More story than history
Review: I used this textbook years ago when I was in 3rd grade, and I recently found it again in the basement. It's highly biased to the point of containing inaccurate information, and the content/topics the author chose to include (or chose not to include) is questionable as well. It's as if the author wrote it from memory during a creative streak but couldn't be bothered to check her sources. I used to be a big fan of those novel-like biographies for kids, which is what this book is reminiscent of, but calling this a history textbook is a whole 'nother story. Unfortunately, some (private) schools are still using this, including the one I went to when I was a kid in MA.
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