Textbooks

People were asked by The Week Magazine to come up with a likely chapter title in a history book approved by the Texas Board of Education.

FIRST PLACE: Abraham Lincoln: Kentuckian or Kenyan?

SECOND PLACE: The War on Indian Aggression

THIRD PLACE: Mission Accomplished: The Alamo

HONORABLE MENTION:

The Texas Contribution to the Revolutionary War

1835-1850: Americans Liberate Texas Territory from Mexican Illegal Immigrants

Union Joins Texas

Harriet Tubman: Employee of the Week

1865: The Confederacy Agrees to Call it a Draw

Fillmore’s Folly: California Admitted to Union

Pearl Harbor: God’s Punishment on a New Deal President

Decade of Dictators: Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and FDR

Joe McCarthy: The Humble Senator Who Saved us from Communist Takeover

The Not-So-Great Society

Democrats Gone Wild: The Women’s and Civil Rights Movements

Victory in Vietnam

Ronald Reagan and all Those Other Presidents

Gore Tries to Steal the Presidential Election

George Bush: Misunderestimated

How Gay Marriage Caused September 11th

Cheney’s Enhanced Interrogation Techniques Save America

Benedict Arnold, The Rosenbergs, and Obama

American Heroes Who Wrote Speech Notes on Their Hands

Copied and distributed by Walt Bittle – April 2011