Essays on Textbooks

The book Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen focuses on many of the discrepancies and inaccuracies of history textbooks that are used in schools. Loewen insists that many teachers rely on textbooks and are afraid to deviate from the information in the…

Broke and Hungry: The Unforgiving Cost of College Textbooks As I log on to check my bank account online, my heart sinks and my hands shake. After paying for three classes at $313 apiece and my rent, I know it is probably a very sad…

As children, we naively flipped through picture books detailing Columbus’s triumphant journey to the New World, where he was greeted by quaint, native people whose submission granted him access to the lands we now call home. We were told about their simple mannerisms, their elaborate…

Based on an article written by Saunders (2016), the textbook definition of gentrification is “the movement into a formerly deteriorating community by middle-class or affluent residents, all of the above would be signs of a process that is well underway.” In other words, it may…