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- Ward, Kyle. History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History has Changed in the Telling over the Last 200 Years. New York: New, 2006.
Teaching the 20th
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Instructions
We see the past through the filter of the present. How does that filter change perceptions as the distance between past and present widens? Date the following textbook excerpts—two on the women's movement in the later 20th century and two on Ronald Reagan's presidency—and consider the change in how writers interpret the present as it becomes the past.