Homer C. Hockett (1875–1960)

This book was writtien as World War II war ended and was probably an assigned text for many veterans. There are references to "lion hearted Britain","pygmy Japan', a cartoon of a German getting kicked in the rear end captioned "Getting it in the "Rhur" A map of the Meditterranean theater of war bears colonial labels: French West Africa, Anglo Egyptian Sudan".

The authors were confident the allies would win. There is an excellent map of the lend-leased islands in the Caribbean and a table of equipment lend leased.

Photographs and maps that would probably not appear in a current American history textbook,but that would have been almost current history for the 1944 readers were a map of locations of TVA dams,a table of federal finances by expenditures compared to deficits 1930-1940,A stanza of a earst press jingle was quoted
The Red New Deal with a Soviet seal
Endorsed by a Moscow hand
Thestrange result ofanalien cult
In a liberty-loving land.
Race is covered with a full page drawing of "A Ku Klux Sentinal" and on other page a photograph of Booker T Washington.The authors are sufficiently "politically incorrect" by current standards to write
"...handicapped by the shiftless habits learned in slavery" However, by 1890 nearly a fifth owned their own homes.

While I do not suggest that current history students use this as an introductory text I believe it should remain on the shelves of libraries
and when appropriate used as supplementary material.… (mais)