Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians. Edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Manning Stevens.

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Why You Can’t Teach United States History without American Indians . Edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith, Juliana Barr, Jean M. O’Brien, Nancy Shoemaker, and Scott Manning Stevens. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015. xiii + 335 pp. Illustrations, maps, table, notes, bibliographical notes, index. $29.95, paper; $28.99, e-book.) This timely collection of essays by some of the leading scholars of American Indian history stems from a 2013 symposium held at the Newberry Library in Chicago under the auspices of the D’Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian and Indigenous Studies. Following in the McNickle Center’s long-standing effort to enhance the teaching of American (Indian) history and point out the (still) major flaws in American history textbooks, this offering provides teachers and students brief and direct essays on a variety of topics. Indian history here is not merely a “contributions” …