{"id":21866,"date":"2015-10-22T13:37:03","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=21866"},"modified":"2015-10-22T13:40:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T17:40:21","slug":"history-class-and-the-fictions-about-race-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/10\/22\/history-class-and-the-fictions-about-race-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"History Class and the Fictions About Race in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Atlantic<\/em> has the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2015\/10\/the-history-class-dilemma\/411601\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Atlantic article\">History Class and the Fictions About Race in America<\/a>.  Ths subtitle to the article is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHigh-school textbooks too often gloss over the American government\u2019s oppression of racial minorities.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To sum it all up there is this quote.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n\u201cAt its best, history embodies the triumph of evidence over ideology,\u201d Loewen wrote. \u201cTextbooks do not embody history at its best \u2026 White history may be appropriate for a white nation. It is inappropriate for a great nation. The United States is not a white nation. It has never been a white nation. It is time for us to give up our white history in favor of a more accurate history, based more closely on the historical record\u2026 Surely a great nation can afford that.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I have <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?s=loewen\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Previous posts mentioning Loewen\">blogged about Loewen<\/a> and his book a number of times.<\/p>\n<p>How many of the current political disagreements do you think are caused by the faulty teaching of history?  There are facts that many people are absolutely sure of that are just not so.<\/p>\n<p>From my <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/quotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"My list of notable quotes\">Quotes page<\/a> we have the following:<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Mark Twain<\/dt>\n<dd>\u201cIt ain\u2019t what you don\u2019t know that gets you into trouble. It\u2019s what you know for sure that just ain\u2019t so.\u201d\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Atlantic has the article History Class and the Fictions About Race in America. Ths subtitle to the article is: High-school textbooks too often gloss over the American government\u2019s oppression of racial minorities. To sum it all up there is this quote. \u201cAt its best, history embodies the triumph of evidence over ideology,\u201d Loewen wrote. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-21866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21866"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21866\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21870,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21866\/revisions\/21870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}