Evil America Is Taught In College
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Publishers Weekly - Textbooks have long served as a main battlefield in the culture wars and the latest salvo comes from Schweikart, a history professor at the University of Dayton (A Patriot's History of the United States), who examines leading American history texts and other books that he sees as purveying a distinctly slanted view of American history—one that portrays the United States as oppressive, imperialistic, and evil. Each lie is deliberated in a brief essay. A chapter on the notion that FDR knew in advance that the Japanese would attack Pearl Harbor focuses largely on countering Robert Stinnett's Day of Deceit. The belief that Columbus was responsible for killing millions of Indians (drivel) is, he says, based on faulty statistics. In examining the belief that Richard Nixon sent burglars into the Watergate office complex, the author accepts G. Gordon Liddy's account of events over John Dean's. Regarding the Rosenbergs, Schweikart cites Soviet documents proving they were indeed spies. Schweikart marshals an arsenal of statistics and scholarly studies, and while his own biases will limit his reach, he offers an object lesson in the need for scrupulous balance in the writing of history textbooks. (Sept. 4)
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A historian debunks four-dozen PC myths about our nation’s past.
Over the last forty years, history textbooks have become more and more politically correct and distorted about our country’s past, argues professor Larry Schweikart. The result, he says, is that students graduate from high school and even college with twisted beliefs about economics, foreign policy, war, religion, race relations, and many other subjects.
As he did in his popular A Patriot’s History of the United States, Professor Schweikart corrects liberal bias by rediscovering facts that were once widely known. He challenges distorted books by name and debunks forty-eight common myths. A sample:
• The founders wanted to create a “wall of separation” between church and state
• Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation only because he needed black soldiers
• Truman ordered the bombing of Hiroshima to intimidate the Soviets with “atomic diplomacy”
• Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan, was responsible for ending the Cold War
America’s past, though not perfect, is far more admirable than you were probably taught.
Books:
"Voices of UD:" Historical Interpretations of the University of Dayton, ed. and principal author (Dayton, Ohio: University of Dayton, 1999).
A Patriot's History of the United States, co-authored with Michael Allen.
Conspiracy Nation, or, How Americans Trusted Government and the Media Less and Believed Rumors More, forthcoming.
Victorious Wife, Victorious Life: the Biography of Betty Scott Price (Los Angeles, California: Crenshaw Christian
Center, forthcoming)
Readings in Western Civilization, arranged by Larry Schweikart (Indianapolis, Indiana: Simon and Schuster Custom Publishers, 1998)
Readings in Technology and the Culture of War, arranged by Larry Schweikart (Indianapolis, Indiana: Simon and
Schuster Custom Publishers, 1998
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Ziazan
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"Liberal Lies" made me laugh.
- 2 years ago
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Ziazan
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samthesixth
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Read the guy's book! If you like Howard Zinn's People's History try this author's Patriot's History. An interesting contrast. Neither is more accurate they just approach the subject from different perspectives.
- 3 years ago
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samthesixth
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junsumoney
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This is Fox News, people. A biased network talking about bias? How ironic.
- 3 years ago
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junsumoney
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Bisbonian
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Hmmm...Sean Hannity, vs. educated professors. Which should I believe? I just can't decide!
- 3 years ago
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Bisbonian
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numinant
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wow, i don't think that guy uttered a single compelling argument, only his interpretation of events, based on an overly simplified and decontextualized version of the events he's critical of. he didn't even counter any actual citations, or attribute the 'liberal bias' to anyone in particular. shitty, shitty journalism and argumentation.
- 3 years ago
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numinant
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BillRisen
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we did hear of Russia's presence in the pacific towards the end of wwii as a factor for dropping the bomb. however, I never for a moment felt concerned over any zealousness or forceful attitudes in how this or other american shortcomings were taught or written about. in my class, opposing historical interpretations were also never labeled 'nonsense.'
- 3 years ago
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BillRisen
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alamadu
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I saw this on tv the other day, and most of what he was talking about i thought only conspiracy theorists said. i.e. "FDR new about pearl harbor before it happened."
People like Sean Hannity blame "liberals' for so much that even his followers would become suspicious. I think he counters their doubts by spreading lies like this to paint liberals as so evil anything is believable. The sad part is there are probably people out there these days who are telling their children not to be educated because the really believe that there is some world wide conspiracy to spread lies and only the most uneducated citizens in rural America can see the truth (nothing at all against rural America it's where I'm from). This man and his followers and O'riley and Limbaugh make me sad angry confused sick and a number of other emotions all at the same time. - 3 years ago
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alamadu
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jh64487
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so he'll sell some books by rewriting history from a non-traditional (or perhaps more accurate highly traditional) view point and he'll give the ...um...'less intelligent' members of our nation something with which they can feel intelligent and knowledgeable about.
- 3 years ago
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jh64487
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flyingkick
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Isn't it funny how the people who are the most educated (college professors) are the ones who are most critical of America.
Shouldn't that tell you something..."Fundamentally racist, classist society, anti-women" That sounds like an accurate picture of American history. How can he dispute this?
And what's the problem? The more youth know about the evils of American history, the more power they have to change things.
America flourishes from criticism. Every step of progress made in this country has been paved by people who were critical of America.Hannity is just playing off of people's ignorant patriotism that blinds them to the truth in order to sell ad time so he can get a paycheck.
- 3 years ago
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flyingkick
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nodonjuan
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Both Gorbachev AND Reagan were responsible for the end of the cold war. Let's face it, people in the USSR were hurting but, with some other hardliner in there instead of Gorbachev, Reagan could have never done it. Ronald Reagan was not Superman or an angel. Our national airport is named after someone who fired all the air traffic controllers. That's irony.
- 3 years ago
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nodonjuan
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Not_A_Fox
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nodonjuan:
Al Franken said it best:
It was the Truman administration's initiating an Arms race with the Soviet Union that began it's eventual downfall. An Arms Race that continued throughout the cold war. Ronald Reagan contributed, but only slightly. In the end, it was Afghanistan and the Union's weakened state afterwards that allotted Soviet Bloc citizens the boldness to rise up against Moscow.
That's who ended the cold war. It was Truman that started it, and it was the Afghans and the soviet citizenry, itself, that would prove to be the last two nails in Soviet Russia's coffin.
All Reagan did was build just a few more M-16's & new bombers and went down to west Berlin one day to tell Gorbachev off. That's it.
- 3 years ago
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Not_A_Fox
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kennymotown
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For the past thirty years our track record has been a little suspect. And with the war on the middle class since Ronald Reagan, only the rich kids along with a few token scholarship winners go to the good colleges.
I commend the the truth teachers for trying to teach these kids that their is more responsibility in being an American rather than rapping the world for yankee imperialism. And Sean Insanity can kiss my ass. - 3 years ago
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kennymotown
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AMCope
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Exactly.
- 3 years ago
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AMCope
