College: History Twisted ... Who's the Real Victim Here?

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Colleges Twist U.S. History: Priority for 'Grievance Studies'
National Association of Scholars
http://www.nas.org/articles/colleges_twist_us_history

U.S. history courses at American colleges and universities downplay the nation's economic, military, and political history, and dramatically overemphasize the role of race. So finds a new study by the Texas Association of Scholars (TAS) and Center for the Study of the Curriculum at the National Association of Scholars (NAS) ... The researchers found that many important topics received scant attention while more than half the faculty members focused on race, class, and gender (RCG) in their courses. Among the topics that were often crowded out were America's diplomatic, philosophical, religious, and scientific history.


The Organization of American Historians: Faithfully Reflecting Prevailing Standards
Mark Weber - Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v13/v13n4p20_weber.html

... The Organization of American Historians - the foremost association of scholars devoted to US history - and the OAH's scholarly Journal of American History, faithfully reflect the prevailing standards and ideological slant of America's historical "establishment." ... As this review shows (once again), the normal standards of historical evidence and criticism are simply tossed aside when it comes to the secular pseudo-religion of our era. In light of such "scholarship," any OAH criticism of the IHR is not only ludicrous, but serves to underscore a clear double standard.


International Historians' Meeting Reflects 'Politically Correct' Academic Agenda
M. Weber -- Institute for Historical Review
http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v15/v15n6p32_weber.html

How a society views the past not only reflects its current prevailing values and outlook, but also profoundly influences the way its people will shape the future ... The Montreal Congress reflects the currently fashionable "victimization" mania in which blacks, homosexuals, Jews, feminists and others vie for preferential "victim status." Behind this vogue is the notion that this coveted status confers a kind of nobility or moral stature on the members of the oppressed group. Furthermore, a hierarchy of victimization attributes the greatest measure of moral authority to those who have been most "victimized."