Word: rugg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until the Depression that history texts began to grapple with the nation's changing social and cultural issues. The most notable grappler was Harold Rugg. In An Introduction to the Problems of American Culture and other books, he boldly discussed class structure, unemployment, even talked of socialism as a possible way of redistributing wealth. His texts were popular with liberals and sold widely. In the mid-1930s nearly half the schoolchildren of America read Rugg. But as war threatened, Rugg was thought to be unAmerican. In 1939 such diverse organizations as the American Legion and the Advertising Federation...