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History of Social Studies

  • Six history books have been published

  • Period: to

    Between the years of 1801 and 1860 there have been 351 established history textbooks

  • The foundations of "Social Studies" was adopted

  • Massachusetts required towns to learn about history in secondary schools

  • Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Virginia passed laws to make sure that history was being taught in schools

  • Madison Conference on the teaching of history, government, and economics

  • The book "How to Study and Teach History" was published

  • William Mace "Method in History"

  • Founding of the History Teacher's Magazine

  • Organization of the National Council of Geography Teachers

  • Community Civics, Bulletin 23 of the Bureau of Education