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The Atlantic, Who Should Decide how Students Learn about America’s Past? Then reply to this point and respond to the article incorporating the following questions.   1. What has your experience been with American history as taught in American high schools? Have you noticed the issue the article is addressing? (For example, the controversy over McGraw-Hill history textbooks referring to kidnapped African slaves as “immigrants” and “workers” or the “lionizing” of the Founding Fathers vs. the critical 2. How is historiography different from history? Consider especially these two quotes:”Currently, most students learn history as a set narrative—a process that reinforces the mistaken idea that the past can be synthesized into a single, standardized chronicle of several hundred pages. This teaching pretends that there is a uniform collective story, which is akin to saying everyone remembers events the same. Yet, history is anything but agreeable. It is not a collection of facts deemed to be “official” by scholars on high. It is a collection of historians exchanging different, often conflicting analyses. And rather than vainly seeking to transcend the inevitable clash of memories, American students would be better served by descending into the bog of conflict and learning the many “histories” that compose the American national story.””Americans want to be descendants of a noble people, explained David Blight , a U.S.-history professor and the director of Yale’s Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition. Americans want to be the people who emancipated the slaves—not the people who enslaved them. “But history’s job isn’t to make people feel happy about themselves or their culture,” he said.”3. What are your thoughts going forward? Who SHOULD decide who teaches Americans history? You may answer all three questions together in a single robust paragraph. Please make sure you REPLY TO THIS THREAD and don’t start your own.  Your points will NOT be added to your Threaded Discussion grade but rather added to the Extra Credit score.  I usually hide Easter eggs on Wednesdays.  You have until the close of the Threaded Discussion to respond (Sundays at noon).   

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