Thursday, March 3, 2016

Our Locally-Used American History Text

Over the past few years I have read, digested and pondered our local American History text. This culminated in a Guest Commentary in the Ledger: http://www.ledger-dispatch.com/news/a-closer-look-at-our-local-high-school-american-history-textbook-2

Following that publication Eric Winslow published a vitriolic response: http://www.ledger-dispatch.com/news/former-teacher-uplifts-an-honest-view-of-american-history-2

I rebutted him which the Ledger agreed to also publish:                
http://www.ledger-dispatch.com/news/a-third-salvo-in-the-american-history-textbook-battle-2

Read together, they illustrate the wide cleavage in the understanding of our history and the thrust of revisionism to rewrite that history as the basis for a very different America.

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