[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="(Three girls stand against a wall in the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California, one of 10 U.S. camps that interned Japanese-Americans during World War II.)"]
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A semi-famous man once said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Hundreds of people a week seem to be taking those words to heart, looking for information on history textbooks and finding themselves reading Fordham's 2004 report "A Consumer's Guide to High School History Textbooks". Our Google analytics data show that the phrase "high school history textbook" has consistently been one of the top 10-searched phrases bringing people to Fordham's website every week since the beginning of August 2009. The report page itself is our seventh-most visited page. Why the intense interest? It could be related to the Common Core Standards or the heated debate over social studies standards in the Lone Star State.
Searches for "world history textbook high school," "high school world history textbooks," and "history textbooks high school" have also driven traffic to Fordham's website in the last six months. People might want to check out our 2006 report on states' world history standards or our 2002 look at how to teach about September 11.
(Photograph by Ansel Adams from the Library of Congress)
--Laura Pohl