1)The creation of our Republic marked the high point of history, capping three thousand years of development in the Judeo-Christian, Greco-Roman, Anglo-American heritage.
2) The United States liberated the lands and peoples of what are now its southwestern states from the tyranny of Santa Ana and the misery of Mexico.
Juan Sequin would be a better choice than Cesar Chavez.
I remember in my teens I used to buy old history books at a junk store. I got one that ended about 1900 and another that ended about 1918.
Then I noticed that both American History books differed in what they taught. One book said, before the Civil War, New Mexico and Arizona were to be considered Slave territories. The other book said they were not slave territories. Both had maps showing slave territories.
The curriculum it chooses will be the guideposts for teaching history and social studies to some 4.8 million K-12 students for 10 years. The standards will be used to develop state tests and by textbook publishers who develop material for the nation based on Texas, one of the largest markets. In early testimony, the board was urged to include more examples of influential Mexican Americans in the nation's history and to further acknowledge Sikhism as a major world religion.
Yahoo or the AP changed the story this morning. Now it says Bill Gates in stead of Mary Kay.
I almost fell out of my seat when I saw Mary Kay in the original story. I can just imagine a bunch of over painted Baptist women fighting to have their hero- multi- level marketing make-up queen Mary Kay included in textbooks.