55 Scholars Protest AP U.S. History Changes
Defenders of the College Board’s controversial new AP U.S. History (APUSH) framework like to paint their opponents as ignorant chauvinists who want to censor the bad bits out of American history. That’s going to be awfully hard to do now that 55 distinguished historians, Americanists, and education specialists have issued a powerful condemnation of the College Board’s revisionist history.
The statement’s signatories make it clear that they favor a “warts and all” account of American history that nonetheless emphasizes the ways in which “we remain one nation with common ideals and a shared story.” I cannot improve upon this statement, which will almost certainly stand as a landmark in our public debates about what sort of country we are and want to be. I recommend that you read it forthwith, along with the excellent commentary on it by Peter Berkowitz. (Note that the bottom of the statement contains instructions for those with professional competence in the study or teaching of American history who wish to add their names to the list of signatories. more
Thank God. I took a college history class a couple of years ago and the professor made it a point to spend a bit of time indoctrinating the class on a list of muslim accomplishments throughout history, all of them bullshit. When I contradicted him on a few occasions I was told to shut up – and one girl even walked out of the class. So I made the motion like I was zipping my lips and throwing away the key – and skipped the last class on how fabulous islam is.
I always ask the muslim lovers to give me THREE each names of islamic equivalents in music, art, architecture, politics, cinema…and because you don’t know anything culturally, socially or politically, just a short list of western giants in some of those fields — Mozart, Beethoven, Strauss, Dickens, Shakespere, Hemingway, Churchill, Lincoln, Reagan, da Vinci, Michelangelo, van Gogh, Picasso, Monet, Edison, Graham Bell, Gutenberg, Ford, Tesla, Magellan, Columbus, Polo, da Gama, Lloyd Wright, Brunello, Le Corbusier, Gehry, John Wayne, Bogart, Grant, Gable, Astaire…..
Oh heck, one will do.
Then, when I get crickets. I tell them that sound is Latin (again, western)
Rhrettsgirl. Brilliant!!