fourth grade history for a lot of kids is not that easy. a lot of dates, a lot of events that have to be memorized and recalled. but it doesn t help if the history book you re using is wrong. i m not talking a little wrong, i m not talking slightly in error. we re talking really wrong. world war i ended in 1916. no. it was 1917. there were 12 con federal states. actually, there were 11. in 1800, new orleans wass a u.s. port. no, it was still under spanish control. these and dpozozens of other ers can be found in a textbook handed tout thousands of virginia fourth graders. the problems first surfaced last october when the mother of one fourth grader, a college history