Loewen shows how US History books only focus on the good parts of people to make them seem like “heros”. For Helen Keller, they only show her early life, and how she went from being blind and deaf, to being able to read, write and speak. In her later life, she becomes a strong believer in communism. The authors of textbooks and the media only focus on the good part of her life, the beginning, to be an inspiration to children. Woodrow Wilson is also revered as one of the greatest presidents in United States history, but textbooks leave out that he was extremely racist and a white supremacist. He segregated the national government and even went to war with Russia, which is hardly ever spoken about. The knowledge that Helen Keller was a communist, and that she encouraged the idea of the USSR, would probably be one of the biggest surprises to a lot of people, because we are only taught the information that is encouraging. Many people would be surprised to see that textbooks also cover up the atrocities that President Wilson pursued throughout his presidency, because history tries to convince us that each President was
Loewen shows how US History books only focus on the good parts of people to make them seem like “heros”. For Helen Keller, they only show her early life, and how she went from being blind and deaf, to being able to read, write and speak. In her later life, she becomes a strong believer in communism. The authors of textbooks and the media only focus on the good part of her life, the beginning, to be an inspiration to children. Woodrow Wilson is also revered as one of the greatest presidents in United States history, but textbooks leave out that he was extremely racist and a white supremacist. He segregated the national government and even went to war with Russia, which is hardly ever spoken about. The knowledge that Helen Keller was a communist, and that she encouraged the idea of the USSR, would probably be one of the biggest surprises to a lot of people, because we are only taught the information that is encouraging. Many people would be surprised to see that textbooks also cover up the atrocities that President Wilson pursued throughout his presidency, because history tries to convince us that each President was