Why do we keep lying to children?

Sherry sends a story about Texas education policy, from the Washington Post. So, really: How do you teach the Civil War while only lightly touching on slavery? How many more generations will be taught that states’ rights — not slavery — was the issue? Because let me tell you, once those children grow up and …

Why do we believe so many myths about the Confederacy?

Because our textbooks are wrong, according to this essay written by James W. Loewen.