Commentary
There’s currently a raging national debate on what our students should know or not know about American history. This debate goes to the very core of our national being and future.
That’s why I chose to write my new book, “Toward a Perfect Union: The Moral and Cultural Case for Teaching the Great American Story.”
So much of the cultural chaos we’re experiencing today—incivility toward each other, violence in our inner cities, misconceptions about the role of government—can be tied to two things: (1) Americans don’t know their history or how their government works, and (2) the history they do know is distorted and has created a victim mentality among our populace. Instead of history bringing us together under a collective narrative, it’s now taught in a way that divides us and pits people and groups against each other….