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Virginia textbooks face scrutiny over widespread errors
Historians identify dozens of inaccuracies in Five Ponds Press works Our Virginia Past and Present and Our America. Virginia officials ordered a review of texts amid concerns about misdated events and misrepresented roles, including claims about thousands of black Confederate soldiers. The controversy highlights flaws in the state standards based learning system and prompts edits for next editions.
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Virginia
New Orleans
U.S
Five Seas Press
Confederacy
Iff
Warriur
Wear
Five Ponds Press
America
Fia
Donald Heinemann
Hamtipden-Sydney College
Heinemann
Washington Post
South
Joy Masoff
Charles Pyle
Department of Education
Weston, Conn
Virginia Department of Education
Lou Scolnik
Masoff
Fauquier County
Our America
Loudoun County
Post
Fairfax County
Prince William County
Our
Kenneth Bassett
Prince William
Bassett
Mount Vernon
Monticello
DePaul University
Christopher Einolf
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Einolf
William Tecumseh Sherman
Atlanta
Pickett
Mary Miley Theobald
Virginia Commonwealth University
Theobald