Lyle E. Browning wrote:
Kids who grew up in the 50's were certainly taught a rosy view of our
past. Into the 1960's that was still true. Then came the counter-
culture, exploring all sorts of things that were seen anything in
opposition to the stultifyingly dull, the insipid Leave It To Beaver
type of life. The bloom came off the rose and we then discovered the
downside of past hero type folks. Rather than having the maturity to
say, "whoa, these guys weren't all perfect, but they had some good in
them", that they were imperfect but did good things, we did the bi-
polar thing and consigned them to the trash heap. Was that idealism?
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My wife took a senior course at Temple University a year ago which used the 
book, "Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era" by Elaine 
Tyler May (1999). The book is about white Americans in the 50s. You would 
not know there were African Americans in the U.S. except for a few brief 
remarks including one in the introduction, "Although the nation remained 
divided along lines of race and class, and only members of the prosperous 
white middle and working classes had access to the surburban domesticity 
that represented the "good life," family fever swept the nation and affected 
all Americans."

Why don't those who are complaining about "PC" history give us some examples 
of exactly what they object to and a few examples of "PC" texts widely in 
use in universities. There are certainly none that I am aware of that are in 
use in high schools. Don't you think seniors in high school are mature 
enough to hear that their country has sometimes behaved in a less than 
perfect manner?
Paul