Lynn Cheney used to do a lot of stuff with textbook revisionism. Back when Reagan was president and I didn’t even know who she was, I found an abridged article by her in Readers Digest from I think the Wall St Journal.
It’s the only thing I ever cut out and saved, and it’s basically about how so much is left out of history texts because somebody is always insulted. It inspired me.
I read a book by Diane Ravitch about how both the left and right so waters down literature as to destroy its value. Here is also an interesting article.
http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2004/july04/history.html
This is a subject that interests me very much. Years ago I began homeschooling because my son brought home a Steck-Vaughn AMERICAN geography book where all they could do was talk about Africa and the Aztecs, and they chose a person from each region of the country to teach geography - incredible choices like Rosa Parks, Elinor Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, John Muir, Sequoya.... not that they weren’t remarkable people, but is the list a little... one-sided?
Also his history book. The chapters on the pilgrims started out with that they didn’t allow women’s rights, and there was no mention of religion at all.
I decided I didn’t want my kids learning that kind of history.
yep, I know what you mean. I did an analysis of one elementary school book and there were literally equal numbers of words given to European settlers, Indians, and AFRICANS in 1600!!! OUtrageous.