History 1301

Please watch this video

From the book Lies My Teacher Told Me,  please read the Introduction and Chapter 1.

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Please make sure to address the questions posted here and tie them into what you thought was interesting or odd from you assignment. Many of you are still only doing one or the other! 
Well…here we are…Many of you have written that you feel lied to and betrayed by past teachers, textbooks and schools…led down a path of misdirection, smoke-and-mirrors, and “genuine faux” history. =) 
No longer can we use the words “imagine” or “feel” in our textbooks. All of you, accord- ing to textbook companies (Betrayal of History), aren’t smart enough to decipher words like “sharpen” in textbooks, and thus shorten words such as these by a couple of letters to make them miraculously understandable. History texts must now pass a battery of tests given by special interest groups before being put into the hands of our children, rather than allowing professional historians write and edit them. You’ve learned not only some horrifying things about one of America’s great “founders”–Christopher Columbus, but also that he was not even the “first” to come to America, but the LAST in a long line of explor- ers and adventurers. 
Many of you have stopped to ponder: “Is this just the tip of the iceberg? If the story of Columbus and the Native Americans could be so distorted, what other stories have been twisted and contorted into something palatable for the masses?” 
And you’re right…this is just the begin