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Public opinion and the teaching of history in the United States

Note 102 — Chapter II · Nationalism and Localism in History Legislation, 1860-1900

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Code of West Virginia, 1868, 55, p. 308. For Holmes’ History of the United States, Laws, 1873, 58, p. 419. For geography, Knote’s Geography of West Virginia, Mitchell’s New Revised Geographies, Macy-Howe-Smith’s Lessons on the Globe, by laws of 1873 and again in 1891. Laws, 1891, p. 313. Laws of West Virginia, 1895, ch. 37, p. 63. For the General History by Myers, contract price $1.10, contract exchange price 82 cents; for the Leading Facts of American History, contract price 65 cents, exchange price 50 cents; Beginner’s American History, contract price 43 cents, exchange price 35 cents. Lewis’ History and Government of West Virginia, in fixing 80 cents as the contract price, and Dole’s The American Citizen with 65 cents as the exchange price were likewise named in the law.

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