A Lot of Standards, but Little Truth

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Walter A. McDougall, the Pulitzer prize-winning historian, has just published a devastating attack on a new American history textbook titled "United States History: In the Course of Human Events." Mr. McDougall calls the book, intended for high schools, "a fraud." The 1,200-page volume disparages George Washington, defends pornography on the Internet, explains American history by ignoring Lockean individualism and concludes with bad grammar:

"The application of the ideas of liberty, equality and justice on which this democracy is founded are [sic] constantly evolving in response to changing times."

Why pick on one textbook? Because this is the one based on the …