In subjects ranging from Africa to terrorism, world history textbooks provide unreliable, often scanty information and provide poorly constructed activities. Publishers could and should be providing high school teachers and students with cheaper, smaller, more legible volumes, stripping trivia and superfluity from current volumes. Rooted in a flawed production system and publishers' intransigence, the problems with world history textbooks go deep enough to raise questions about corporate violations of public trust. |
