Five Ponds Press

Publisher Of Inaccurate VA Textbooks Will Replace Them For Free

David Taintor | January 12, 2011, 2:02PM

The publisher of textbooks in which historians found major errors has said it will correct and replace the books at no cost to the Virginia schools they were used in, the Washington Post reports.

Five Ponds Press, a small publisher in Connecticut, is responsible for the books in question, which -- among other errors -- claimed that African Americans fought in large numbers for the south during the Civil War.

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