Textbooks Replace Heroic History With Social Narratives, Critics Say
Textbooks once stirred curiosity and pride; now many read like instruction manuals for grievance, and that matters because what boys read shapes what they become. This piece argues that the Progressive-era redesign of "social studies" traded vivid, motivating stories for sterile social narratives, that committees toned down heroism and adventure, and that restoring concrete, action-filled...