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Any honest review of American textbooks used in Grades K-12 from the 18th Century through the mid- to late-1900's will reveal that such textbooks included stories, poems, songs, biographies, etc., about America's founding--its pioneers, its soldiers, its heroes, and its amazingly rapid development from a wilderness to an economic powerhouse--and all of that was before 1776!

Any who do not believe that, by 1775, such was true, should read Sir Edmund Burke's 1775 "Speech on Conciliation with the Colonies" before the British Parliament, in which he details economic statistics showing how the American Colony already was feeding the Old World. He attributed it to many factors, primarily to what he called their "spirit of liberty." Once a for of government for a free people was formed, America continued on its progress through freedom of individual enterprise, with little government interference.

The Liberal/Progressive ideology which has dominated education of youth for the past several decades has effectively erased such ideas from the textbooks and teachings of youth. Little wonder that they now are propagandized in ideas of redistribution and socialism they have little basis for understanding the true meaning of FREEDOM.