The Winners Write The History Books

Gary North reports:

The main problem is not the people who make television series and movies. The main problem is the history professors who write textbooks for public high schools and the mostly tax-funded universities. The liberal mindset that has dominated Hollywood since 1960 has dominated American academia since at least 1900.

When it comes to historical accuracy, there isn’t much of it when it comes to a discussion of civil government. Those who write today’s textbooks have been trained in institutions that have been funded by the state. Even in the institutions that have not been funded by the state, they are licensed and regulated by the state, especially in the area of accreditation. Keynesianism and the foreign-policy of the Council on Foreign Relations have dominated academia for as long as they have dominated policy-making in Washington.

Yet even this is understating the case. The victors write the textbooks. American books on the American Revolution began to be written in 1789. The textbooks written on the Constitutional Convention began to be written around 1800. Readers were not given the facts regarding either the American Revolution or the Constitutional Convention. They still are not. Textbooks continue to repeat the party line of the victors.

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