School Books Rewritten in Texas

[Philippus Flavius Homovallumus]

History is an image a society wants to present to itself for its own benefit.
That is why the same event describe by the different protagonists will differ.
So every person involve in writing History wants his/her side seen as good, even if it wasn’t…

Actually, Historiography is about trying to make sense of the past, that it used to push an agenda is merely a by-product of human nature. Nor are you correct to say that all history attempts to show the historian's own side as positive. Two examples of the latter pitch are German history of the Second World War and the British history of Colonialism. Any history has a bias, because any person has a bias, but Historiography is not about pushing a particular viewpoint above all else.

History taught in Classrooms is more construction of Identity with Role Model and Heroes than real history.
I have an English Colleague who can with a strait face tell me that England was never defeated. When I do answer that is why Philadelphia is still English, he just avoid answering

True to an extent, but your English colleague clearly didn't pay attention in his history classes, as such a perverse view has never been taught in English schools. The closest you might come to that in the English educational system is the Churchillian cult of "We Won the War" in the 1950's during the post-Imperial period.

Generally speaking, history is a perspective of the past constrained within the available facts.

[Centurion1]

i dislike ancient history textbooks. It bothers me that sub-saharan africa gets as much notice as western europe and east asia. Yes, they ar eusually ignored and need to be learned about but there just isnt enough important stuff about the region as compared to the ME, Asia, Europe before colonization.

Oh and we learned about native americans in US history for about 6 straight years in middle school.

[Megas Methuselah]

Oh and we learned about native americans in US history for about 6 straight years in middle school.

We didn't. Pretty amazing, considering how important we are in contemporary Canada. A study of the treaties should be an absolute necessity in the school system.

[A Nerd]

Native Americans are often overlooked. I learned most of what I know about them from the 1950's American Western and Last of the Mohicans. I know, it's pretty sad.

[Centurion1]

Are you guys kidding me your not that much older............ That is like all we did for most of grade school.

sorry megas but i can only learn about one thing for so long.

[A Nerd]

Native Americans as far as what I can remember from school were: interactions with colonials (Jamestown, Plymouth), slight reference to French and Indian war, trail of tears (one paragraph), Custer. My history classes seldom made it past 1865 before summer vacation. One may want to discount Custer from my class room learnings actually. This is New England though, perhaps they thought we should learn 'more important' things?

[Tellos Athenaios]

Why would we be kidding you? I know many Org members are from the USA, but that doesn't rule out the possibility one might hail from such regions as the UK, or France, and thus have a different perspective on it? I know there are many teenagers on this board but on the flip side we have many people raised before the WWW, too?

[Centurion1]

i was speaking specifically to nerd and megas. both of whom are not that much older or from outside north america.