HISTORY 202 Chapter Notes - Chapter 0: Republican National Committee, History Wars, Azadirachta Indica
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History wars, then and now: the politics of unity in american history textbooks before the. American citizens are now aware that history is gaining the attention of politicians which increases our efforts to write our past since it is shaped by the needs of the present. History is of the upmost important to a successful democracy. The republican national committee rejected revisions of the ap standards for being too critical of the us and not representing all of our accomplishments. Some schools see this as a conservative effort to censor the truth about everything in american history including the good and the bad. These types of conflicts have existed since history was introduced to the educational curriculum after the 1830"s. For example, there were conflicts about how the topic should be taught. Some textbook writers believed that children should have to memorize every single fact and record it to memory.
