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Here’s how: Instead of infecting young minds with mythic propaganda offered in the standard American History curriculum, texts that downplay the immorality and barbarism of our nation’s founding, expansion, and ongoing operation, we could offer future generations something much more like the truth.

Instead of telling stories that celebrate slaveholders, murderers and pathological psychopaths, we could teach our children what American life has been like for blacks, Indians, women, and poor people of all colors….

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