The Graduate Programs in Book History and Modern History and Literature
at Drew University
present a lecture by
Jonathan Zimmerman
CULTURE WARS IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS:
HISTORICAL DILEMMAS, CONTEMPORARY OPPORTUNITIES
Thursday, November 14
7:30 pm
Brothers College Chapel
Drew University
Madison, New Jersey
Jonathan Zimmerman is director of the History of Education program at New
York University. His most recent book, "Whose America?: Culture Wars and
the Public Schools" (Harvard University Press, 2002), is a fascinating
discussion of the historical and contemporary tensions within American
culture over textbooks, race, ethnicity, and religion in our public
schools.
This event is free, open to the public, and handicapped-accessible.
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