Another Attempt at Book Banning

mathmom
Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:07:13 +0000

I may be misremembering what my kids told me. (Embargo vs blockade.) The real point was that there are other ways of looking at those facts. History books are often banned for not presenting a 100% pro-American version of history. I don’t think my kids came away with the sense that we shouldn’t have gotten into the war. (Obviously we should have been fighting Nazism far sooner than we did.) But it made very clear the point that history is written from the point of view of the people writing the history. I’m quite sure that the way children learn history subtlely influences the way they think about other people. I grew up in an era where we celebrated immigrants become American, parts of their culture may have been incorporated into the pot, but it was still a big melting pot. My kids were encouraged more to appreciate the differences. Pearl Harbor was a bit on my mind today I guess.