Peter Berkowitz of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, writing for RealClearPolitics, reports findings that the U.S. history being taught U.S. undergraduates is heavily flavored with issues of race, class, and gender.
Furthermore, research interests of faculty teaching introductory history courses are largely in issues of race, class, and gender. These issues are not unimportant, but they certainly do not constitute all that is important about U.S. history.
To be sure, most of the nation's early history was created by now-dead white men - so what? These patricians - Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, Madison, Franklin - actually did a good job; a job of which all of us can be proud if only we are taught about their accomplishments.
