How can you have history without historical figures? The Continental Army was led by a guy. Some other guy committed treason. Another guy said something about liberty or death before they hung him. The conflict lasted for a while. It was cold sometimes.
I've been through this before with a local teacher who decided to revise Civil War (whoops, the Slave Liberation Conflict) history. My daughter will learn. That's all there is to it.
That is about the extent to which one will learn any history these days. Its the same in college where intellectual laziness can be summed up when any leftist calls them "dead white guys" as if to demean the fact that they founded what is the greatest country of human history.
"Responding to harsh criticism by US officials, Arafat also made an appeal yesterday to the American people in a program on the Qatari satellite channel Al-Jazeera, asking them to compare the Palestinian struggle against Israeli occupation to their own against British forces in the American War of Independence.
"Did you ever accept the British occupation of the United States," Arafat asked. "Didn't George Washington fight, along with his people, until they freed the United States?"
Washington, Jefferson and Franklin et al are major figures in WORLD history. I'll bet the inventor of peanut butter makes the cut in this revised history book.
OUTRAGEOUS!