Remembering History: Texas History Textbook from 1895

I'm very deep into my family's genealogy (got sucked into ancestry.com and don't regret it!) and found the Portal to Texas History website, which serves as a repository for some original source documents.

I stumbled across a book on the Portal called A New History of Texas for Schools: Also for General Reading and for Teachers Preparing Themselves for Examination. It was published in 1895.

If you think the new Social Studies TEKS proposed by the SBOE are outrageous, and are concerned about their effects on textbooks, check this out from "New History." It makes you realize that politicizing and moralizing and shoving specific viewpoints on children, is not exactly new. The following excerpt is in two parts, because there was a page change. Click on the images to make them larger.

"Industrious Christians!" Maybe this will give the SBOE some ideas for amendments for Thursday's meeting. Watch for it.