“Monday TV Picks: 'Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood'” plus 3 more

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• Monday TV Picks: 'Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood'
• History; Tap dailies’ archives
• History: Textbooks must tell it as it is
• History a pass subject, but whose version?

Monday TV Picks: 'Moguls and Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood' Posted: 31 Oct 2010 07:10 PM PDT A History of Hollywood' A seven-part documentary series that looks at the making of the American movie industry by using interviews with...

History; Tap dailies’ archives Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:27 PM PDT I REFER to the report "History lessons need creativity, says don" (NST, Oct 27) in which Universitiy Malaya University of Malaya Literature and Social Sciences Faculty's History Department senior research fellow Professor Emeritus Ahmat Adam was reported as saying that history must be presented to students based on the truth and facts, and not propaganda elements.

History: Textbooks must tell it as it is Posted: 31 Oct 2010 06:26 PM PDT SINCE the announcement by Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin on 23rd October 23 that History will be made a must-pass Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) subject from 2013, there has been a lot of talk by politicians, university academicians and laymen on the issue of what should be put into the textbooks.

History a pass subject, but whose version? Posted: 31 Oct 2010 05:27 PM PDT At Umno's recent 61st general assembly, the prime minister advised the nation to stop questioning Malaysia's "social contract". This was swiftly followed a clearly political decision requiring SPM takers to pass History from 2013. But whose version of history will this be?

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