Note 619 — Chapter VI · Attempts to Control Textbooks

Ibid. According to the Committee the “modern textbooks in most frequent use are: civics, Ashley’s The New Civics, Beard’s American Citizenship, Dunn’s The Community and the Citizen, Forman’s The American Democracy, Hill’s Community Life and Civic Problems, Hughes’ Community Civics, Magruder’s American Government in 1921, and Reed’s Forms and Functions of American Government; in economics, Burch’s American Economic Life, Burch and Patterson’s American Social Problems, Hughes’ Economic Civics, Laing’s An Introduction to Economics, Marshall and Lyon’s Our Economic Organization, and Thompson’s Elementary Economics; in sociology, Burch and Patterson’s American Social Problems, Ellwood’s Sociology and Modern Problems [sic], Towne’s Social Problems, and Tuft’s The Real Business of Living; in history, Ashley’s American History, Beard and Bagley’s A First Book in American History, Beard’s History of the United States, Bourne and Benton’s History of the United States, Cousins and Hills’ [sic] American History, Evans’ The Essential Facts of American History, Forman’s A History of the United States for Schools, and Advanced American History, James and Sanford’s American History, Mace’s School History of the United States, Muzzey’s American History, Thompson’s History of the United States, Political, Industrial and Social, and West’s History of the American People. “Labor and Education,” p. 28.