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Subject:	Re: Civil War and Textbooks
From:	"Jurretta J. Heckscher" <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:21:51 -0400
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In response to Anne's suggestion (below), I would only caution that there is no reason to suppose that online sources are any more inherently reliable than textbooks. 

On the contrary, students urgently need to be taught how to think critically about historical information conveyed by all media-- and in particular, how to evaluate the reliability of history-oriented Web sites. 

~Jurretta Heckscher

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On Mar 22, 2012, at 10:27 AM, Anne Pemberton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I would like to see textbooks replaced by use of online sources for information. Instead of doing Chapter 12, students could study, label, and rank the Founding Fathers. Seems the Internet could be a means of giving students access to the "best in their field" ...
> 
> Anne
> 

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