Whose America?

Culture Wars in the Public Schools

Jonathan Zimmerman

    Introduction: Beyond Dayton and Chicago

    I. History Wars

    1. Ethnicity and the History Wars

    2. Struggles over Race and Sectionalism

    3. Social Studies Wars in New Deal America

    4. The Cold War Assault on Textbooks

    5. Black Activism, White Resistance, and Multiculturalism

    II. God in the Schools

    6. Religious Education in Public Schools

    7. School Prayer and the Conservative Revolution

    8. The Battle for Sex Education

    Epilogue: Searching for Common Ground

    Abbreviations

    Notes

    Acknowledgments

    Index

  • Cover: Whose America?
  • A photo of the author

Jonathan Zimmerman is Professor of Education and History at the Steinhardt School of Education and in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at New York University. He spent two years as a teacher with the Peace Corps in Nepal.