[ColdOne]

Just a minor setback for them. They will have history re-written within 5 to 10 years.

[I want the USA back]

Shows their profound hate for this country. They will try again.

[gov_bean_ counter]

CBS blamed it on those evil conservatives a couple of nights ago.

[BenLurkin]

[YHAOS]

“Those points of emphasis are expected next year to replace the previous test questions, which some historians and teachers say took a negative view of the U.S. “The result is a clearer and more balanced approach to the teaching of American history,” the College Board announced Thursday.”

Nonetheless, I’ve yet to see a candid acknowledgement by the Western Academic Community, much less the rest of the “World Community,” that it is the US and Western Europe, and only the US and Western Europe, that have, since the end of WWII, consistently sought to uphold Christian principles that establish when war might be lawful, the avarice and cruelty of war, the treatment of prisoners, when the right of conquest and the claiming of the spoils of war are just and when they are not, the rights of discovery and the treatment of native peoples, the securing of peace as the prime objective of war, issues of maritime law, redress for injuries, restitution of property and recompense for wrongs done, and the laws of embassy and envoys.

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[TomGuy]

That is the problem with revisionist history — it continues to be revised.

[dhs12345]

Kind of ironic that they rip the country that allows them to complain.

They wouldn't be very happy if the United States never existed. Life would be a lot different and a lot worse here on this continent and around the world.

The whiners ancestors would have not left Europe for the free world. They'd probably still be stuck in Europe as serfs or dead from whatever famine that was about to happen or whatever imminent plague.

Their ancestors are probably rolling in their graves.

[driftless2]

One of the worst depictions of U.S. history is the period from 1850-1900. Even histories I read in school fifty years ago before Common Core and the growth of p.c. didn't always give a fair view of that period. It was variously described as the "age of the robber barons" or the "gilded" age. Emphasis was put on poor working conditions for the masses and the vast wealth earned by the "robber barons."

Certainly, many people procured vast wealth during that period. And most working Americans still led tough lives. But it was also the time of the biggest increase in wealth of the average American ever.

Mostly thanks to the Industrial Revolution, many Americans progressed from living hardscrabble lives on the farm to working in cities and acquiring many of the amazing inventions created during that period.

[CorporateStepsister]

I am so tired of how colleges denigrate the US nonstop. If not for Western civilization the world would be in a much worse place. Ingrates the pack of them.