Emancipation Proclamation
Another very diverse topic when it comes to how it is described in schoolbooks is the Emancipation. The tone in which it is addressed, the effect it is described to have, and the subsequent inclusion or disclusion of mention regarding African Americans can all be used to paint very different pictures of how this event should be remembered.
Thomas Francis Donnelly, A Primary History of the United States: For Intermediate Classes, (American Book Company, 1919) 192.
Robert Hall, Harriet Smither, and Clarence Ousley, A History of the United States for the Grammar Grades, (Southern Publishing Company, 1920) 358-359.
Susan Pendleton Lee, New School History of the United States, (Johnson Series. Richmond, Va.: BFJohnson, 1900) 299.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson and William MacDonald, History of the United States: From 986 to 1905, (Harper & Brothers, 1905) 524.