So the Texas Board of Education may rewrite history textbooks... everywhere

[Spankey]

Kasz216 said:

Spankey said:

 

of course it was!

History is dynamic

the fact is, history tought in schools changed. The "true" state of affairs is decided by those that write the history books.

what actually happened, or the real influence of a noteworthy individual might never be known outside a very select few or those astute enough to be able to untangle it through serious research of the available historigraphy.

 

My point though, not all revisionist history is bad... a lot of it ends up fixing other parts of revision. A lot of it as you know isn't even political, it's just the people who make textbooks are lazy. I mean hell, plenty of textbooks still teach people though Christopher Columbus was going to fall off the edge of the planet.

fo sho!

however, I'm not entirely convinced that the textbook writers can always rely on the lazy excuse; as we can see from the OP, the bias slant and the content changes within the textbooks are often dictated to the writers to satisfy the agenda of those who commission the textbooks to be (re)written.

semi off-topic, your mentioning of that Columbus-falling-off-the-edge-of-the-world business reminds me of an old biology textbook I found where it shows (even a scetch!) of a mosquito sucking the blood out of it's victim with it's butt. I shit ye not. sometimes people get things wrong, but sometimes the reason behind the changes to the textbooks have another reason entirely; being it to reflect the new ideals of the regime change (even rep. to democrat I suppose) or whatever.