American Educator, Fall 2002

Volume 26, no. 3

Curing Provincialism

Why We Educate the Way We Do

Jacques Barzun

American History

A Drama of Sweep and Majesty

Wilfred M. McClay

The Different, but Necessary, Truths of History and Science

Wilfred M. McClay

The Whole Shebang

How Science Produced the Big Bang Model

Timothy Ferris

The Life That Shaped Mark Twain's Anti-Slavery Views

Bring Mark Twain to Your Classroom

Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan, Geoffrey Ward

Inventing Numbers

How Mathematics Filled the Inky Void

David Berlinski

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