As a result, newspapers have had to shrink their staffs, especially their reporters and editors, so even less investigative journalism now gets done. When readers found they could get headlines, sports news, crossword puzzles, and their horoscopes online, many stopped subscribing to newspapers. At the same time, subscription revenue plummeted. The country’s largest online store, Amazon, rarely advertises in print. When retailers found they could reach potential customers more cheaply online, many decreased advertising in newspapers. First, it has jeopardized the finances of newspapers. On the contrary, in two ways the web has made things worse. My use of the past tense in the previous paragraph does not mean that this shallow means of presenting “news” has stopped. Again, nothing like this occurs in any high school history textbook. We also intended to increase students’ map literacy, so they could see how patterns from a shaded map or dot map might relate to a landform map. Possibly it involves the attitudes of a society, attitudes based on the kind of society it is the society itself, in turn, was based long ago, in part, on the kind of land lying underneath.” Our hope was to get students thinking about causality in history, a topic mostly absent from U.S. Even though we intended it for ninth graders, we believed our job was to encourage students to think, not just “learn.” In an early boxed question, we referred readers to nine maps sprinkled throughout the book, “to try to answer this question: do soil resources attract industry? If not, try to discover what does bring about industrial growth.” We went on to say, “The answer is not easy. Way back in 1974, I led a group of professors and students at Tougaloo College to write a new textbook of Mississippi history, Mississippi: Conflict and Change.

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