National Standards for History

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  6/9/2021
  

  The Fog of History Wars

  by David W. Blight

  Nations have histories, and someone must write and teach them, but the 1990s battle over the National Standards for History remains a warning to all those who try – setting a history curriculum is politics by other means, and the right has always been willing to fight over it.