New textbooks in Texas downplay Jim Crow and frame slavery as a side issue in the Civil War: http://t.co/p1gs5HLwO1 pic.twitter.com/pUpb2dFGD9

— Slate (@Slate) July 8, 2015

And if Texas is proffering these textbooks, you can be assured that many other states will use them as well (because that’s how textbook adoption works; big states like TX, CA, and NY drive textbook adoptions elsewhere).

This is a whitewashing of history.