Thanks for the link to the Times-Dispatch commentary.

Forum members might also be interested in three other recent commentaries, 
two from the History News Network and one in today's New York Times. The 
second attempts to rebut the first explicitly, and the third does much the 
same.

Why Conservatives Are Up in Arms at the College Board's Advanced Placement 
Course in History
Peter Wood, an anthropologist, president of the National Association of 
Scholars
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156706

A Rejoinder to Critics of the New AP Course in History
Fred Anderson, professor of history at the University of Colorado, Boulder
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/156769

The New History Wars
James R. Grossman, executive director of the American Historical Association
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/opinion/the-new-history-wars.html 

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