Who owns the American past? The national history standards controversy in the United States (1993-1996)
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https://doi.org/10.22456/1983-201X.51290Keywords:
United States, Culture wars, National History StandardsAbstract
The present article deals with the public controversy regarding the National History Standards, a series of proposals that aimed to help in the reform of Basic Education in the United States, between 1994 and 1996. In the text, it is emphasized the answers of the conservative sectors to the proposed guidelines, especially what they considered to be “the hijacking of history” by the “multicultural”, “politically correct” and “anti-western” hosts. With that, it is argued that these sectors sought to build a past that was stable and without conflicts as a counterpoint to a present that appeared to be more and more unstable and conflictive, thus assuring a very limited idea about who were the main characters of American history and what it should mean.
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