Please, please, Prof. Richardson, get a team together to write new textbooks on US history for elementary, middle and high school students. Maybe it could be a project assisted by your MA/PhD students. After that, a US History 101 would be of the essence for all first year college students. I don’t know how many times, I have had to give…
Please, please, Prof. Richardson, get a team together to write new textbooks on US history for elementary, middle and high school students. Maybe it could be a project assisted by your MA/PhD students. After that, a US History 101 would be of the essence for all first year college students. I don’t know how many times, I have had to give US history lessons in my Human Rights classes. Your academic input would be such a blessing!
Looking forward! As I learn more about what has actually happened in our American history, I begin to realize we were completely miseducated as children, and that our children were similarly miseducated. It was deliberate, and little better than the same type of propaganda fed to children in totalitarian countries. It's long past time for us to educate our children with an honest history of this country that tells the unvarnished truth of what actually happened. It's far more interesting than the polished turds we were fed as kids, and it would help us understand the deep scars in the history of our nation as well as what we could do as adults to do make things better. Sure, folks can say, "My country, right or wrong," but there's a lot of wrong that we could actually start repairing and improving if we'd just own up to it.
I was so excited to see your comment above that I had to read it aloud to my family! We need to teach our REAL history in order to create good citizens which should be the ultimate goal of education in a democracy.
Indeed, it's time to reveal a more complete picture of our legacy, revealing covert and overt agendas... including such travesty as the Dawes Act of 1887. Are you hinting that you might be expanding and updating Howard Zinn's 1980 "A People's History of the United States"? - ...and, do you have an opinion of his work?
At the very least, you could have someone go on your YouTube Channel and re-write the descriptions on the History and Politics Chats, LABELING ALL OF THE QUESTIONS and showing the TIME STAMP for where to find answers in the videos. That way, teachers could easily find the material to share with their classes! (Former educator here.)
Please, please, Prof. Richardson, get a team together to write new textbooks on US history for elementary, middle and high school students. Maybe it could be a project assisted by your MA/PhD students. After that, a US History 101 would be of the essence for all first year college students. I don’t know how many times, I have had to give US history lessons in my Human Rights classes. Your academic input would be such a blessing!
Hold that thought for an announcement, with luck in the next three months.
Looking forward! As I learn more about what has actually happened in our American history, I begin to realize we were completely miseducated as children, and that our children were similarly miseducated. It was deliberate, and little better than the same type of propaganda fed to children in totalitarian countries. It's long past time for us to educate our children with an honest history of this country that tells the unvarnished truth of what actually happened. It's far more interesting than the polished turds we were fed as kids, and it would help us understand the deep scars in the history of our nation as well as what we could do as adults to do make things better. Sure, folks can say, "My country, right or wrong," but there's a lot of wrong that we could actually start repairing and improving if we'd just own up to it.
I was so excited to see your comment above that I had to read it aloud to my family! We need to teach our REAL history in order to create good citizens which should be the ultimate goal of education in a democracy.
Indeed, it's time to reveal a more complete picture of our legacy, revealing covert and overt agendas... including such travesty as the Dawes Act of 1887. Are you hinting that you might be expanding and updating Howard Zinn's 1980 "A People's History of the United States"? - ...and, do you have an opinion of his work?
At the very least, you could have someone go on your YouTube Channel and re-write the descriptions on the History and Politics Chats, LABELING ALL OF THE QUESTIONS and showing the TIME STAMP for where to find answers in the videos. That way, teachers could easily find the material to share with their classes! (Former educator here.)