American imperial exceptionalism? Texas secondary World History depictions of American empire, 1925–2016.
This article explores the connection between American exceptionalism and empire denialism by examining high-school World History textbooks approved for use in the state of Texas from the 1920s to 2016. Scholarship suggests that the powerful ideology of American exceptionalism is deeply uneasy about...
| Publicado en: | Paedagogica Historica Vol. 61; no. 4; pp. 590 - 611 |
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