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I'll keep it short. I am looking for high school level books in High School US Government, High School US History, High School Economics, and High School Science. I want to study materials that I did not really learn in High School. Any recommendations on what is being used now would be great. Thank you for your time.
Take a look at these (sometimes controversial, depending on who you ask) books that some high schools will use now:
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
Take a look at these (sometimes controversial, depending on who you ask) books that some high schools will use now:
A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, by Nikole Hannah-Jones
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J Dubner
Are those used in highschools? If so, public or private?
I know that all three—or at least excerpts from them—are used in some public high schools here, usually those with a more progressive bent or those with a stronger academic student body. I can’t speak to the private schools, but I wouldn’t be surprised to find them there.
I'll keep it short. I am looking for high school level books in High School US Government, High School US History, High School Economics, and High School Science. I want to study materials that I did not really learn in High School. Any recommendations on what is being used now would be great. Thank you for your time.
There are not that many textbook publishers. They have all merged. I would suggest an AP American history textbook. You can typically find a used copy on Amazon for $10-15. If doesn't have to be most current edition. Here is a list of the leading AP US History textbooks:
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Brinkley Unfinished Nation McGraw Hill
Divine America Past and Present Prentice Hall
Faragher Out of Many Prentice Hall
Henretta America's History Bedford/Macmillan
Kennedy The American Pageant Houghton Mifflin/Cengage
Norton A People and a Nation Houghton Mifflin/Cengage
Tindall America: A Narrative History Norton
New York City and northern Appalachia are two very different places.
True. If you used The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story as a textbook in many of the school districts around here, there would likely be protestors at the next school board meeting. They would accuse the school of teaching CRT. I'm not exaggerating.
I recently read Freakonomics and enjoyed it. It is not really an economics textbook, however, even though it is written by an economics professor.
I would seek out a local library or college library if open to non students. Check out and read a variety of books. I've found, even when I was in high school years ago, that most history textbooks are very incomplete. They skip important events or glance at them. More about names and dates than causes and relationships. Even as a kid I felt most school history texts had too much of a New England ivory tower perspective and left out a lot of history in the south and southwest. Native culture, Spanish exploration and influence, French exploration in the west and so much more was glossed over. Even things like the America Revolution were heavily focused on Boston and Philadelphia. You get the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea party. Sam Adams. Ben Franklin. Bunker hill. Valley Forge. Then we skip a few years to Yorktown. Leave out the 70% that was fought on the Carolinas and its influence to today. Abd so much more from history.
What you get from textbooks is whatever message they want to send and nit a real understanding of history.
I would seek out a local library or college library if open to non students. Check out and read a variety of books. I've found, even when I was in high school years ago, that most history textbooks are very incomplete. They skip important events or glance at them. More about names and dates than causes and relationships. Even as a kid I felt most school history texts had too much of a New England ivory tower perspective and left out a lot of history in the south and southwest. Native culture, Spanish exploration and influence, French exploration in the west and so much more was glossed over. Even things like the America Revolution were heavily focused on Boston and Philadelphia. You get the Boston Massacre, Boston Tea party. Sam Adams. Ben Franklin. Bunker hill. Valley Forge. Then we skip a few years to Yorktown. Leave out the 70% that was fought on the Carolinas and its influence to today. Abd so much more from history.
What you get from textbooks is whatever message they want to send and nit a real understanding of history.
You are never going to find one book that covers everything. That's why I recommended used AP textbooks, which are more in-depth and can be purchased inexpensively.
The OP said he was looking for high school level books that covered those topics. Here is one I used for regular 11th grade history classes:
It was published in 2001, so it won't have more recent information, but it did an excellent job of covering the 1940s, 50, and 60s. You can pick it up in "Good" condition on Amazon for $5.95 with free shipping.
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