A retired editor and historian is having difficulty
with the AHS. He expects that if the AHS produces history textbooks for Arizona
schools, they should be accurate. He is
frustrated with what he perceives to be a lack of concern about accuracy.
Perhaps he does not understand the AHS perception of
history.
An April 30, 2011 post on this blog described a Monday,
April 18th, 1211, KAET 8
interview of an AHS representative. In
that interview, the representative said that history is “about learning and imagining
the future”. The statement supported the plan to erase history (mining and
mineral museum) and replace it with an Arizona Experience Museum.
If the AHS does not recognize or accept the commonly
understood definition of history, why would they be concerned about accuracy?
Reference:
Textbook
makers should tell schools about errors
Earl
Zarbin
Arizona
Republic, January 28, 2013, page B6
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