Article: AMERICAN HISTORY WITHOUT THE DEAD WHITE MEN.(MAIN)

Byline: SUZANNE FIELDS

Not so long ago the trendies were chattering about the ``end of history.'' What they should have been talking about is the ``end of teaching history.''

Two years and $2.2 million of taxpayer money has produced National Standards for United States History for grades 5-12. This is the report that promised to provide a new look toward excellence for teaching our children to learn about the past. But instead of emphasizing the extraordinary ideas of the Founding Fathers, which have inspired revolutionaries of various stripe for two centuries, these guidelines stress multiple themes only a multiculturalist, politically correct and ...

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