Michael Phillips

Here, Raymond Massey plays John Brown, a white abolitionist who tried to start a slave rebellion in Harpers Ferry, Virginia in 1859. Massey portrays him as a thoroughly crazed maniac, while Errol Flynn depicts future Confederate General J.E.B. Seward as sweetly rational.

American schoolchildren, furthermore, learned from their teachers that so-called radical democracy was not a good idea, and sometimes dictatorship was the better option. The 1924 textbook, Our World Today and Yesterday, A History of Modern Civilization, published two years after Mussolini's fascist government took over Italy, had nothing but praise for that nation's new dictator.

American schoolchildren, furthermore, learned from their teachers that so-called radical democracy was not a good idea, and sometimes dictatorship was the better option. The 1924 textbook, Our World Today and Yesterday, A History of Modern Civilization, published two years after Mussolini's fascist government took over Italy, had nothing but praise for that nation's new dictator.

American schoolchildren, furthermore, learned from their teachers that so-called radical democracy was not a good idea, and sometimes dictatorship was the better option. The 1924 textbook, Our World Today and Yesterday, A History of Modern Civilization, published two years after Mussolini's fascist government took over Italy, had nothing but praise for that nation's new dictator.

The authors told the impressionable high school students the following about the world's first fascist leader.

The authors told the impressionable high school students the following about the world's first fascist leader.

The authors told the impressionable high school students the following about the world's first fascist leader.

I tell it, the Italians of America who are working to make America great. Another textbook published in 1935, The Record of America, told students that the so-called founding fathers, like Alexander Hamilton, were not big believers in democracy, an attitude the authors seemed to endorse.

I tell it, the Italians of America who are working to make America great. Another textbook published in 1935, The Record of America, told students that the so-called founding fathers, like Alexander Hamilton, were not big believers in democracy, an attitude the authors seemed to endorse.

I tell it, the Italians of America who are working to make America great. Another textbook published in 1935, The Record of America, told students that the so-called founding fathers, like Alexander Hamilton, were not big believers in democracy, an attitude the authors seemed to endorse.

In 2015, Ronnie Dean Barron got a text from her son, Kobe. who was glancing at a ninth-grade geography textbook published by McGraw-Hill, assigned him by his high school in Paralin, Texas, near Houston. He sent her a video highlighting a map in a shocking caption. Soon Burren posted her son's video online. That video, as KPRC reported, spread outrage across the nation.

In 2015, Ronnie Dean Barron got a text from her son, Kobe. who was glancing at a ninth-grade geography textbook published by McGraw-Hill, assigned him by his high school in Paralin, Texas, near Houston. He sent her a video highlighting a map in a shocking caption. Soon Burren posted her son's video online. That video, as KPRC reported, spread outrage across the nation.

In 2015, Ronnie Dean Barron got a text from her son, Kobe. who was glancing at a ninth-grade geography textbook published by McGraw-Hill, assigned him by his high school in Paralin, Texas, near Houston. He sent her a video highlighting a map in a shocking caption. Soon Burren posted her son's video online. That video, as KPRC reported, spread outrage across the nation.

The caption wasn't an accident. McGraw-Hill had given the state of Texas what it wanted. Rather than anything like critical race theory, the State Board of Education in 2010 adopted changes in Texas curriculum standards for public schools, known as Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

The caption wasn't an accident. McGraw-Hill had given the state of Texas what it wanted. Rather than anything like critical race theory, the State Board of Education in 2010 adopted changes in Texas curriculum standards for public schools, known as Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

The caption wasn't an accident. McGraw-Hill had given the state of Texas what it wanted. Rather than anything like critical race theory, the State Board of Education in 2010 adopted changes in Texas curriculum standards for public schools, known as Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

that imposed a whitewash of American slavery, raised doubts about human-caused climate change, and imposed other right-wing content. To be sold in Texas, school textbooks had to meet the board's standards.

that imposed a whitewash of American slavery, raised doubts about human-caused climate change, and imposed other right-wing content. To be sold in Texas, school textbooks had to meet the board's standards.

that imposed a whitewash of American slavery, raised doubts about human-caused climate change, and imposed other right-wing content. To be sold in Texas, school textbooks had to meet the board's standards.

The demands Texas makes of textbook publishers matter, as PBS reported a decade ago.