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Re: Is textbook HET systematically false
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I can report that this kind of systematic falsification is typical of textbooks in other lines of history too. As Professor Weintraub indicates, it's a common, essential problem in all historiography. But it's particularly gross in the genre of textbooks, because of publishers and because of the graded way we get and teach our students.

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