Slaves or Workers: “Grammatical Choices as Moral Choices” in History Textbooks

by Ruslana Westerlund The New York Times published an op-ed in 2015 analyzing the language used in the Texas History textbooks published by McGraw-Hill Education. The “Grammatical choices as moral choices” phrase in my title came from that article. The NYT piece references this original post where Coby Burren, a 15 year old student, discovers that