Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s decision to block a draft version of an AP African American history course, and College Board’s subsequent decision to amend the course, have elicited cries that DeSantis is keeping students from knowing the real (ostensibly racist) history of the United States.
Unsurprisingly, Laats didn’t stop with arguing that conservatives are trying to hide history. Instead, he resorted to the now routine tendency to associate any policy unpopular on the Left with the Confederacy, and later the KKK, noting, “In the 1920s, White conservatives in organizations such as the American Legion and the Ku Klux Klan expanded this campaign across the entire country.”
Textbooks that sought to center slaveholding and racism were generally rejected: “In the eyes of conservatives in organizations such as the Daughters of the American Revolution, American Legion, and Ku Klux Klan, such questioning was anathema, a treasonous attack on America’s uniquely heroic past.” Laats also appears infuriated that conservatives might offer a different reading of America’s past.
When the conflict over slavery heated up in the U.S. Congress in the 1830s, Southerners feared the distribution of literature from anti-slavery Northerners. The mere suggestion that slavery was not the normal condition of mankind elicited Southern fears. Northern congressmen increasingly argued that the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution were committed to the ideals of equality.Books that taught freedom was an American birthright were burned.
The politicization of history in recent years and its tendency toward partisan activism has led to the assumption that history curricula ought to emphasize the United States as particularly racist and immoral. Yet societies tell stories that emphasize their values. Since schools teach students what their respective societies see as valuable, secondary schools are and have always been the chief institutions for catechesis.
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