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...immense role played by Spaniards in early colonial America. Up to now they have been all but shunted out of view behind the screen of Anglo founder- images (the Pilgrim Fathers, Raleigh in Virginia). This can do good, not because it may pump up the "self-esteem" of Hispanic schoolchildren (the purpose of history is not to make people feel better), but because it accords with a large truth shrouded, at present, in omissions and lies. Columbus himself has been presented as Castilian, Catalan, Corsican, Majorcan, Portuguese, French, English, Greek and even Armenian. He was, in fact, Italian: born...
...fundamentalist Shi'ites will not give up their capital without a struggle. When 20,000 people, mostly schoolchildren, gathered in the ruins for a Peace Day sponsored by the Lebanese Ministry of Tourism in June, Hizballah fired its antiaircraft artillery and the celebration ended in panic. The ruins had been transformed, complained Hizballah in a communique, "into a market where women show their flesh and where obscene proposals are exchanged...
Americans over 40 might be startled by a description of the Glorious Fourth that points out the racial, sexual and social characteristics of the Founding Fathers, never mind taking a swipe or two at Jefferson. But most of today's schoolchildren would not be surprised. It is now fairly commonplace to learn American history in the context of who has oppressed, excluded or otherwise mistreated whom. All across the country, students are imbibing a version of the past and present that their parents would not recognize...
...argument that the half of Germany that was partitioned and impoverished is the only place in Germany where anti-Semitism is openly voiced today. Instead, consider a German friend of my family, a small child during the Second World War who made his life's work educating German schoolchildren about the Holocaust. He remembers distinctly the first day he wasn't hungry; he was 11 years old. It is instructive to remember that if Alan Dershowitz had been calling the shots in 1945, my friend would probably have starved to death...
...Lines in Elk Grove Village, Ill. Ever since word got around that United plans to build a new $1 billion aircraft-maintenance center somewhere in the U.S., some 90 cities, states and other public entities have been strutting their stuff in hopes of winning the facility. Dozens of schoolchildren from Oklahoma City have written to chief executive Stephen Wolf, beseeching him to provide jobs for their parents. Suitors have sent flowers to UAL executives and bombarded them with commercials on a local Chicago radio station. A huge red-white-and-blue billboard near UAL's offices reads, UNITED, COME...