Rewriting the Second Amend.: U.S. History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination

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Reviwers are giving them hell: United States History: Preparing for the Advanced Placement Examination
http://www.amazon.com/United-States-.../dp/1567656609

http://monderno.com/news/high-school...2nd-amendment/

Update 12:00 PM EST: Looks like this is confirmed thanks to Monderno reader Jimmy (see comments below). Here is a PDF version of the textbook, see page 102, screenshot below. I have also downloaded a copy of the PDF in case it gets taken down.

http://www.gunnuts.net/2013/09/16/gu...2nd-amendment/

Update 11:08 AM Central Time
Guyer High School’s Director of Communications, Sarah Cox responded to our request for information with the following email:

Mr. Giddings:
Thank you for your interest in our textbook.

The teachers and staff are aware of this “summary statement” in the U.S. History book for Advanced Placement history classes. It is what it states above the listing of the amendments – that it is a summary statement. Please be assured that the teachers in Denton ISD are disseminating the correct information on the Second Amendment.

http://www.gunnuts.net/2013/09/16/gu...2nd-amendment/

Update at 1414 Central Time: The administration at Guyer has provided further clarification on the textbook as used in their class. Here is their clarification:

The main history book utilized in the Advanced Placement U.S. History classes for juniors in Denton ISD is titled: American Pageant. This is a history book that has had a strong reputation for historical facts for many years. The American Pageant, the official textbook, gives the exact Bill of Rights.

The book in question, U.S. History: Preparing for Advanced Placement Exams, is a supplemental instructional aid and not the official textbook for any history classes. In this supplement, it states – above the amendments – that the following is a “summary statement.” The teachers and staff are aware of this “summary statement” and are teaching the amendments from the classroom textbook, American Pageant.

The only approved textbook for these classes is American Pageant. All other materials are “supplemental.” Please be assured that Denton ISD history teachers are disseminating the correct information on the Second Amendment.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013...ond-amendment/

Upon further review of the book, authored by Dr. John Newman and Dr. John Schmalbach, TheBlaze also discovered a potentially controversial passage on the American Revolution. The text asks the question: “THE REVOLUTION—RADICAL OR CONSERVATIVE?”

The authors call those who fought in the Revolutionary War “revolutionary mobs” and “American mobs.”

“In comparing the three revolutions, a few historians have concentrated on the actions of revolutionary mobs, such as the American Sons of Liberty. Again there are two divergent interpretations: (1) the mobs in all three countries engaged in the same radical activities, and (2) the American mobs had a much easier time of it than the French and Russian mobs, who encountered ruthless repression by military authorities,” the text reads.

The book also compares American Revolution fighters to the “guerrilla bands that fought in such countries as Cuba in the 1950s and Vietnam in the 1960s.”

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In comparing the three revolutions, a few historians have concentrated on the actions of revolutionary mobs, such as the American Sons of Liberty.

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