New Allamo Film promotes PC History.(American history)

The Fordham Foundation report, Lynne Cheney's op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on The National History Standards, and the Albert Shanker Institute Report, all correctly concluded that today's U.S. history textbooks overemphasize America's flaws and failures and omit many of America's strengths, successes, and heroes. They also concluded that the history textbooks today are anti-Western Civilization and pro-Third World. This is all done in the euphemistic name of "diversity," "multiculturalism," or "political correctness". This is why so many of our young people are disillusioned with and bored by the study of history. True religious, political, scientific, and military history has been suppressed and replaced by a censored politically correct "social studies".

For example, The National History Standards, put forth by politically correct professors at UCLA, omitted the Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison, and Alexander Graham Bell, because the professors thought there were too many "dead white male" inventors in the traditional U.S. history textbooks and more room needed to be made for "diversity." The Wright Brothers were taken out, and Mansa Musa was put in their place. No mention was made of the invention of the airplane. Following that precedent, a current text for high school students, A History of the United States by Boorstin, published in 2002 by Prentice-Hall, does not mention the Wright Brothers.

Many of our "social studies" students are so bored and fed up with their textbooks that they no longer read them. They learn most of their history from one aspect of what Michael Medved calls the "popular culture," i.e. movies. Unfortunately, many of the new history movies are, like their textbook counterparts, anti-American.

For example, the new Disney Alamo film, which is scheduled to be released in April of 2004, promotes a politically correct revisionist agenda aimed at destroying traditional American heroes. According to early reviews of the script, William Barret Travis is portrayed as a "serial adulterer," James Bowie is featured as an evil "slave trader," Sam Houston is portrayed as a "bi-polar, manic ...