Conservatives Trying To Rewrite History In Texas Schools

In three grueling sessions last year, a nine-member curriculum committee appointed by members of the State Board of Education met to hammer out which version of American history that 4.7 million Texas high schoolers, and maybe high schoolers everywhere, will learn for the next decade.

On the committee were eight educators and one "citizen" (that's how he was described on a published list of its members), and the latter could not have been more different from the others. Bill Ames had neither history or education credentials nor respect for fellow committee members who did. Indeed, the retired IBM executive and conservative gadfly believed they had been planted there in a conspiracy of "liberal groups" and unions who wanted to "hijack" U.S. history -- or so he would later write in a three-part, 9,300-word rant, "The Left's War on History," that was published by the conservative web site Texas Insider.

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