I’ll bet the idiot Hiltzik gets drunker than hell every Cinco de Mayo. What a moron.
If these people weren’t so stupid, and they are very stupid, they would be upset too.
A nation who allows itself to loses its history has lost its future.
Maybe a time-traveling horse would help.
Standing up for "principle"?
The enduring principles and ideas essential to liberty for individuals in a society, once understood and taught to the youth of America, are the very ideas which caused hundreds of millions of oppressed individuals to flee their own countries and come to America!
Just what "principle" can these reinterpreters of America's founding ideas "stand up" for?
the intent isn’t to teach history but to sow discord and get people to hate the country, just like obama and all the dictators and commies around the world do.
Americans are ‘throwing a conniption’ over the teaching of ANTI-US history.
Howard Zinn strikes again.
I read much of the AP History material proposed by the College Board in a different thread on FreeRepublic. It was truly depressing. The depth to which the revisers will go to push their agenda is astounding.
I read 1984 and Brave New World when they were still science fiction. Alas, Babylon.
Olplayer
History, anyone’s history, is indeed a political argument. The past explains the present, and therefore serves to justify peoples arguments about the present. There is no way to be either professional or apolitical in teaching or writing about history. Even someone consciously and conscientiously trying to be as objective as humanly possible, will fail.
That, among other things, is one of the lessons of history.
So anything like an academic history standard or a history curriculum is a political document.
Pure b.s. propaganda.
On February 19, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 granting the War Department broad powers to create military exclusion areas. Although the order did not identify any particular group, in practice it was used almost exclusively to intern Americans of Japanese descent. By 1943, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans had been forced from their homes and moved to camps in remote inland areas of the United States.
It was Democrat FDR who signed the order.
The decision to drop the bomb ended the war and saved lives. Simple as that. Did not cause Americans to question their values. Pure propaganda b.s.
Whose version of history are they teaching? Assume all versions except the history you saw for yourself are fiction and then you can’t go wrong!