Revisionist History

Which King Stands on the Mall?

Michael W. Waters | Posted 12.22.2011

Read More: Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Memorial, Martin Luther King, Revisionist History, Jr. Memorial, Sunday Sermon, Black Voices News
Michael W. Waters

I cannot help but to wonder, which King now stands enshrined on the mall? For our answer to this question speaks not only to who we consider ourselves to be as a nation, but also to who we have made Dr. King to be, and what we consider to be his enduring legacy.

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Why I Got Fired From Teaching American History

Thaddeus Russell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alternate History, Renegade History of the United States, Thaddeus Russell, Thad Russell, Renegade History of the USA, Revisionist History, Renegade History, Books News
Thaddeus Russell

I was raised by pot-smoking, nudist, socialist revolutionaries as an egghead white boy in black neighborhoods in Berkeley and Oakland.

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Deep in the Heart of Textbooks

Daniel Cluchey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Don-Mcleroy, Texas, Fundamentalism, Joseph McCarthy, George Orwell, Revisionist History, Textbooks, Thomas Jefferson, Texas State Board of Education, Politics News
Daniel Cluchey

Turning public school social studies classes into unabashed propaganda sessions goes beyond mere political ugliness. It is craven. It is foolish. It is madness.

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Texas School Board

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Books, Texas State Board of Education, Revisionist History, Politics News
Jeff Danziger

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Contingency Plans For Revised Edition of "A Happier History of America" by Rudy Giuliani

David Quigg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Watergate, War on Terror, Andrew Sullivan, Afghanistan, Terrorism, 1929 Stock Market Crash, George W. Bush, Propaganda, 9/11, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Mujahideen, Rudy Giuliani, George Stephanopoulos, Richard Nixon, Vietnam War, Cnn, Revisionist History, Gop, Rudolph Giuliani, Wolf Blitzer, Good Morning America, Comedy News
David Quigg

MEMORANDUM FROM: Rudy Giuliani, NYC mayor on 9/11/01 TO: Revisionist & Sons Publishing Co.

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Ashton Kutcher: History's Greatest Monster?

Shaun Casey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ashton Kutcher Twitter, History, Twitter, Revisionist History, Comedy News
Shaun Casey

Kutcher is a morally reprehensible ding dong that is ruining your future. He is history's greatest monster. Pass it on. I think that is less than 140 characters

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Martha Washington Redux: America's First MILF

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New Orleans, George Bush, Jimmy Choos, Gulf War, Janet Reno, Eleanor Roosevelt, George W. Bush, Historical Revision, Sex and the City, Ugly Betty, Madeline Albright, History, Betty Friedan, Margaret Thatcher, George Washington, George H.W. Bush, Manolo Blahnik, Revisionist History, Martha Washington, Gertrude Stein, Milf, Barbara Bush, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

Hold on to your hats folks or at least your iPod earbuds, Martha Washington was actually a babe! Also, she avidly consumed Gothic romance novels. Me-ow!

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Correcting Bush's Revision of History

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mainstream Media, George Bush, History, National Security, Media, Revisionist History, George W. Bush, 9/11, Keith Olbermann, Terrorism, Democrats, Republican Party, September 11th, Osama Bin Laden, George Bush Revisionist, Reckless Negligence, Media Negligence, Politics News
Sahil Kapur

Seven years later, it continues to elude many that President Bush had the responsibility to protect the country from attacks like 9/11. Still, Republicans tout their national security heroics.

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No Revisionist History over Bush Regime

Stefan Deeran | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, History, Obama, Iraq, President Bush, American History, Afghanistan War, Revisionist History, Politics News
Stefan Deeran

This editorial originally appeared in The Exception Magazine. (http://exceptionmag.com/) George W. Bush, 43rd President of the United States of Ameri...

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The Daily Szep -- Rewriting History -- The Bush Memoirs

Paul Szep | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Bush Administration, Political Humor, Bush Rewriting History, Revisionist History, Historical Revision, Political Satire, Bush Inherited Recession, Bush Final Press Conference, Bush Recession, Political Cartoons, George Bush Revisionist, Politics News
Paul Szep

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Bush the Bibliophile

Steven G. Kellman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: George Bush, Karl Rove, Reading, Bushisms, Revisionist History, Books, George W. Bush, Politics News
Steven G. Kellman

Whatever their vocation, grownups do not devour books as if they were hot dogs in a speed-eating contest.

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Jimmy Carter Should Receive the Truman Legacy Award for His Energy Positions

Byron Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green, Jimmy Carter, Harry Truman, Revisionist History, George Bush, Environment, Environmentalism, Green Energy, Green News
Byron Williams

America eschewed Carter's clarion call for conservation, opting instead to see itself as a shining city on a hill that required no change in its energy consumption.

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Why We Need a People's History of Sports

Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zirin, Sports, History, Baseball, Howard Zinn, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Revisionist History, Spalding, Baseball Hall of Fame, Media News
Dave Zirin

So much discussion of sports, both its past and present, is about sanding off, beautifying, or simply obliterating anything that might be seen as political.

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Freedom of Speech, Satire, and Revisionist History...

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Holocaust, Freedom of Speech, The New Yorker Cover, David Irving, Christopher Hitchens, Deborah Lipstadt, Revisionist History, Holocaust Deniers, Truth, Socialists, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Walking home on the Upper East Side on Wednesday night, I saw a cluster of ten policemen and two patrol cars. It seemed quite unusual for a quiet block. "What's going on?" I asked.

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Neocons Busy Rewriting History On Iraq

Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Bush Administration, Revisionist History, War in Iraq, Neocons, Neoconservatives, Politics News

Ever since the Rumsfeld era at the Pentagon ended abruptly in the aftermath of the Democratic victory in the 2006 mid-term elections, the civilian haw...

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