You said:
But in America, we're mostly taught that we won WWII on our own.
I said:
That is not what I was taught. Of course they still taught history then. History texts were more accurate and less biased then.
Your response:
The history texts today are much more accurate and well rounded than they were back during the Cold War.
The school texts I read during the Cold War may have been less effusive about the efforts by the Soviet Socialist Republic in defeating the National Socialists than current texts are. (I will grant you that the Soviets probably got a short shrift.) The textbooks of the day were still more accurate. Current history textbooks are not known for their accuracy. I have seen the term revisionism frequently used to describe the current offerings.
Teaching history: fact or fiction?
townhall.com
Today's history books aren't just politically correct. They're boring.
opinionjournal.com
"Clearly Written Textbooks with a Eurocentric Thrust"
textbookleague.org
A funny note on Howard Zinn.. in high school, my AP US History teacher made us buy his history textbook, A People's History of the United States . At the time, I was not yet fully aware of the hatred the left has for this country. About a year ago, I was home and cleaning out my closet... only to find Zinn's “textbook”. After reading a few paragraphs throughout the book, I threw it down... realizing the nonsense that I had been assigned to read.
adamfeil.com
The Progressive Temptation
A review of Freedom: A History of US by Joy Hakim
...Social studies starts with embarrassment, indeed, shame about America. It takes its basic script from Progressive revisionist accounts of American beginnings, redefining the ideals of the American Revolution in Progressive populist (or multicultural) terms; then praising these redefined ideals and denouncing the American founders for their reactionary, self-interested, elitist, racist, or misogynist betrayal of them. Once this basic revision is in place, one can cheer the Progressives who come along to save the day, who recognize that the Constitution compromised away the Declaration's aspirations; that the framers were hypocrites, not heroes; and that the Constitution must be made safe for democracy. It must be made "the living Constitution," as it is called in almost every social studies textbook. The living constitution is then displayed at work in the reforms of the New Deal, the Great Society, and their successors on the road to the administrative state.
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claremont.org
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
James W. Loewen
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FROM THE CRITICS
Publishers Weekly
Loewen's politically correct critique of 12 American history textbooks-including The American Pageant by Thomas A. Bailey and David M. Kennedy; and Triumph of the American Nation by Paul Lewis Todd and Merle Curti-is sure to please liberals and infuriate conservatives.
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