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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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The Adventures (and Misadventures) of a Text Book Author.
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Unger, Irwin – History Teacher, 1983
A university professor describes his experiences with publishing companies and editors as he wrote the undergraduate U.S. history survey textbook "These United States." (RM)
Descriptors: Authors, Experience, Higher Education, Introductory Courses
Editing a Reader.
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Dinnerstein, Leonard – History Teacher, 1983
A university professor describes his experiences in compiling, editing, and finding a publisher for a reader for a college-level American history course. (RM)
Descriptors: Editing, Experience, Higher Education, Textbook Content
The New Chicano Urban History: Two Perspectives. Three Recent Books and Two Analytical and Bibliographic Essays.
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Lotchin, Roger W.; Weber, David J. – History Teacher, 1983
Urban history has made impressive gains since 1960. Three book-length studies of Mexican Americans in the southwestern cities of Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, and El Paso have contributed significantly to historians understanding of the process of urbanization. (RM)
Descriptors: History, Mexican Americans, Urbanization