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APUSH Authors Revealed. Read This Before Webinar Tonight.
From 2011 power point presentation to Charlottesville City Schools. Precursor of APUSH curriculum? APUSH authors listed in this power point. Link at end of article.
Stanley Kurtz revealed this morning important information on the writers of the 2015 Advanced Placement US History test, recently realigned by The College Board. There is concern on the left and the right about David Coleman’s version of AP History being taught to students. From
How the College Board Politicized American History:
NYU historian Thomas Bender is the leading spokesman for the movement to internationalize the U.S. History curriculum at every educational level. The fullest and clearest statement of Bender’s views can be found in his 2006 book,
A Nation Among Nations: America’s Place in World History. Bender is a thoroughgoing critic of American
exceptionalism, the notion that America is freer and more democratic than any other nation, and for that reason, a model, vindicator, and at times the chief defender of ordered liberty and self-government in the world.
In opposition to this, Bender wants to subordinate American identity to a cosmopolitan, “transnational” sensibility. Bender urges us to see each nation, our own included, as but “a province among the provinces that make up the world.” Whereas the old U.S. history forged a shared national identity by emphasizing America’s distinctiveness, Bender hopes to encourage cosmopolitanism by “internationalizing” the American story.
Bender laments that history as taught in our schools has bred an “acceptance of the nation as the dominant form of human solidarity.” The growing focus on gender, race, and ethnicity is welcome, says Bender, but does little to transform an underlying historical narrative built around the nation. Even the rise of world history in the schools has backfired, Bender maintains, by making it appear as though American history and world history are somehow different topics.
