Irving Howe's World of Our Fathers, an account of the migration by two million East European Jews to America during four decades beginning in the 1880's, was deemed "a masterpiece" by critic Harold Clurman, became a #1 bestseller, and subsequently won the National Book Award for 1976. An edition specially condensed by the author has now been issued by Bantam Books [$3.95]. The teaching of history in American schools has long been a subject of controversy, as Frances Fitzgerald made clear in her extensive report on the remaking and revising of the past in U.S. history textbooks during the 20th century. Entitled America Revised, her book was commended by John Kenneth Galbraith, who found its writing "admirable" and its research "inspired." Vintage Books is offering a paperback edition [$3.95]. Vintage has also reprinted another study of our past, this being the noted historian Eugene D. Genovese's From Rebellion to Revolution: Afro-American Slave Revolts in the Making of the New World [$3.95]. Billed as "the true story of Custer's Last Stand," Keep the Last Bullet for Yourself by Thomas B. Marquis, with an introduction by Joseph Medicine Crow, has been reprinted in paperback by Reference Publications, Inc. [$5.95].