Date of Award
8-1928
Degree Type
Bachelors Essay
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Department
Education
First Advisor
James M. O'Gorman
Second Advisor
John McCormick
Abstract
Sir Robert Peel called public opinion a great compound of folly, weakness, and prejudice, wrong feeling, right feeling, obstinacy, and newspaper paragraphs. However it is the great force which has been constantly at work through the ages, sometimes helpfully, sometimes harmfully, molding human history. the introduction of the printing press made books, pamphlets, magazines and newspapers a popular medium for its expression. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, when history formally became an integral part of the curriculum of our great public school system, there has been developed a suspicion among individuals and groups that the subject might easily become a fertile field in which to sow seeds for propaganda.
Recommended Citation
Ward, Agnes, "Public Opinion and the Textbooks in History" (1928). Bachelors’ Theses. 2196.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/bachelor_essays/2196
Comments
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for The Degree of Bachelor of Arts College of Liberal Arts Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.