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wheat-dogg, raker of forests, master of steam8/09/2015 8:50:33 pm PDT

re: #393 teleskiguy

However, they have made some of the language of some of the darker moments in USH softer. There’s a minimization of the horrors of slavery, there’s more pronounced “Carpetbagger/Scalawag” mythology during Reconstruction, who knows maybe the rise of the KKK in the early 20th century might be downplayed. There’s real problems in the writing of these textbooks and they will get worse before they get better.

Yeah, but the College Board doesn’t write the texts. The teachers select books from a recommended list of primary and secondary sources. If a teacher is using a single history textbook, they’re doing the course way wrong.