TIP OF THE ICEBERG: Environmental history errors in a high school textbook.

The other night I took a look at a few pages in my daughter’s U.S. History textbook (Pearson Prentice-Hall, U.S. History: Reconstruction to the Present (Ohio Edition, 2008)) concerning the growth of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s, as I was curious what my daughter was learning about it. . . .

It is important to stress that these are all basic factual errors, not questions of interpretation. . . .

I have not gone through the rest of the book to see whether the sloppiness chronicled above is endemic. It’s possible that the book’s errors are largely confined to its brief discussion of environmental history.