Dr. Joseph Moreau is the

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author of ''Schoolbook Nation'', a book detailing the conflict over the teaching of American history from the

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onward. He is currently a history teacher at Abraham Joshua Heschel High School in

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. Moreau was born and raised in

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. He attended the

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for his undergraduate degree, and later received his Ph.D. in American Culture from the

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. Moreau formerly taught history at

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in New York.

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