Note 916 — Chapter VII · The Attack on History Textbooks Since 1917 (continued 2)
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Dr. Payson Smith in an address on “Schools should be Uninfluenced,” The Christian Science Monitor, November 2, 1921.
Doubtless it is pertinent to call attention to the work of peace organizations in the analyses of history textbooks by which it has been shown that heroes and achievements of war have received much more space than heroes and achievements of peace. See War and Peace in United States History Text-Books by the National Council for Prevention of War, Washington, D. C., and An Analysis of the Emphasis upon War in Our Elementary School Histories, by the Association for Peace Education, Chicago.