U.S. history courses at American colleges and universities downplay the nation's economic, military, and political history and dramatically overemphasize the role of race. So finds a new study by the Texas Association of Scholars (TAS) and Center for the Study of the Curriculum at the National Association of Scholars (NAS).
The study
focused on the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M as
representative institutions because Texas law requires all students at
public universities to take a year of American history and for
universities to post course syllabi and faculty credentials online. The
researchers found that many important topics received scant attention
while more than half the faculty members focused on race, class, and
gender (RCG) in their courses. Among the topics that were often crowded
out were America's diplomatic, philosophical, religious, and scientific
history.
The report, Recasting History: Are Race, Class, and Gender Dominating American History?, finds:
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