The annual federal holiday known as President’s Day is a time to honor the birthday of George Washington, the U.S.’s first president and a key Founding Father. But these days, honoring past presidents and key…
Topic: revisionism
Best-selling role-playing lesson on slavery dropped after complaints
Political correctness and “woke” culture are making everyone skittish, including the directors of a popular role-playing game called Reacting to the Past at around 500 colleges and universities. The Wall Street Journal reported that the…
Trump’s patriotic 1776 Commission was long overdue
On Constitution Day, President Donald Trump announced a new education curriculum development grant geared toward “a pro-American curriculum that celebrates the truth about our nation’s great history.” At the National Archives in Washington, D.C., Trump…
Exhibits You Won’t Find in the New National Museum of African American History and Culture
Many exhibits in the new $500 million National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. will be worthwhile. They will highlight the struggle to overcome slavery and give black people the rights…
New AP European History Curriculum Ignores Winston Churchill
Snubbing Winston Churchill in the new AP European History. This is textbook historical revisionism by the Left.
The Left is Down on Reagan
Even when they are trying to be even-handed, academics can’t hide their biases. “While it is certainly true that the public has a decidedly negative view on ‘the way things are going in the country…
Brown Faculty to Vote on ‘Indigenous Peoples’ Day’
The outrage over Christopher Columbus is mind-boggling when there are current issues to worry about, such as poverty, jobs, and the like. Photo by umbertodpc
Roots of Revisionism
At Accuracy in Academia, we have long complained of academic historians who ignore primary sources in favor of secondary ones. What gets lost in that process from the former approach to the latter one is,…