[LiteKeeper]

to improve the teaching of American history

With all of the revisionism abroad today, which history are they going to teach? Hopefully, it will be His-story!

[wideawake]

Thirty five percent thought that "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" (the Marxist nostrum) was in the Constitution.

The NEA has proven very effective.

[Support Free Republic]

SHOW JIM THE MONEY!!!!

[Severa]

I graduated HS in 1995 and I can quite honestly tell you we studied the Vietnam war for LESS THAN A WEEK. I can't imagine things have gotten better since I graduated...

[Maceman]

Cole hopes the NEH grant to improve the teaching of American history will spur colleges to reinstate history requirements.

Sure. Let's give the colleges more money to teach American history --you know, how the counders were all dead white slave owning males who spread slavery and oppression across the continent and throughout the world, how America has raped the planet and caused all wars. And how FDR saved us from capitalism. Look what's happened to the Smithsonian.

Maybe we would do better to just abolish the NEH (along with National ENdowment for the Arts), and start letting Americans keep more of their own money -- the way the founders intended.

[YaYa123]

"Don't know much about history"
Harrison Ford in the barn with the Amish widow.

(Funny how the mind works)

[warchild9]

The League of the South holds seminars ("hedge schools") for young people in an effort to teach them that history isn't last year's sports' scores, which is how most Americans define the term.

[spodefly]

If we lose our history, we could lose our nation.

I hate to be a cynic, but I would say that, in most of the ways that really matter, we have already lost it. When large portions of the population have totally abdicated their own personal responsibility in favor of victim status and the leech-like goals of trial lawyers, the underlying character that enables a republic is moribund, if not smelly dead already.

[Desdemona]

ping

[HungarianGypsy]

I remember American History in school. For years it started with the early explorers and the Pilgrims. By the end of the year, we would get into the Civil War. The next year we'd be back to the explorers and the pilgrims. I had to take an elective my senior year to cover Modern American History in the 20th century.

I have decided to spend the next two or three years covering American History with my children. I figure they should learn about where they are first, then they can learn about the rest of the world in more detail.

[ladylib]

Article from Thomas Sowell regarding adult education.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/ts20030713.shtml

[lowbridge]

Only 29 percent could correctly place the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in the context of the War in Vietnam. Forty percent could not place the Civil War in the correct half-century. (Ken Burns, call your office.) Only 42 percent knew to whom the words "first in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen" referred (George Washington). Fewer than one quarter could identify James Madison as the "father of the Constitution," and only 22 percent recognized the words "Government of the people, by the people and for the people" as belonging to the Gettysburg Address.

Oh come on. It can't be all that bad.

(Here's a question for buffs: Who was the keynote speaker at Gettysburg that day? Answer: Edward Everett.)

THE Edward Everett Horton? I LOVED him in all his movies! Particularly as Fred Astiare's sidekick on all those Ginger Rogers/Fred Astaire films! :-)

And who could forget him as Medicine Man "Roaring Chicken" in the tv series F-Troop?

Seee? Some of us DO know something about history!