Missing Links in Textbook History: The American Left Part III
Is it not predictable that when segments of a population are harassed, marginalized and enslaved, they will eventually revolt? Does that not constitute a demand for justice?
Missing Links in Textbook History: The American Left Part II
I finally realized that the most useful class division is the simplest: between those who are comfortable, including those who are, like the king, overly comfortable, and those who must…
Missing Links in Textbook History: The American Left Part I
Did you ever learn that communists and socialists have made positive contributions to American society?
Missing Links in Textbook History: The American Empire
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost America the Beautiful O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America!…
Why Approved American History Textbooks Contain Missing Links, Part 1
Mamer discusses the limitations and pitfalls of American history textbooks, highlighting how they often omit important details and present a one-dimensional view of historical events. The author also delves into…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Opposition to War Part 3, Vietnam
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost This is the third part of my exploration of how high school American History textbooks describe American wars and the opposition to them.…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Opposition to War Part 2, World War II and Korea
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Part 1 of this series explored how high school American history textbooks present opposition to war, dealing with the American Revolution, the Mexican-American…
Missing Links in Textbook History: War
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military- industrial complex.…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Colonialism
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Editor’s Note: This marks the 12th installment in Jim Mamer’s “Missing Links” series. A former high school teacher and recipient of the National…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Labor From World War I Through the New Deal
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost “The capitalists tell us it is patriotic to fight for your country and shed your blood for the flag. Very well! Let them…
[rewind] Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous People
ScheerPost is rewinding this piece from February of this year in honor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day. By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Oh, the history books tell itThey tell…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Labor Before World War I
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” – Frederick Douglass Canandaigua, New York 1857 When I was…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Defining Democracy
"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a Democracy yet, that did not commit suicide." — John Adams in a letter to John…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Racism and Race
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Race is the child of racism, not the father. Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me In 1963, James Baldwin wrote in “The…
Missing Links in Textbook History: Civil Rights and Human Rights
By Jim Mamer / Original to ScheerPost Human rights invented America. Ours was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded explicitly on such an idea.…