Note 535 — Chapter VI · Attempts to Control Textbooks

Journal of the Forty-Fourth National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic ... 1910, p. 219. The Phil Sheridan Post No. 4, G. A. R., joined with the Sons of the American Revolution in 1922 in an effort to eliminate West’s History of the American People from the acceptable textbooks of the Boise, Idaho, schools. In addition to criticisms regarding West’s discussion of the American Revolution and the War of 1812, the Veterans objected to the treatment of the Civil War period. See p. 265 and the Idaho Statesman, December 9, 1922.