![]() So the problem seems not to lie in the social pressures, but the unique pressures that surround the textbook publishing industry and how the books get approved. However, there is a rich amount of secondary literature and there are teachers who teach at the upper-class boarding schools who succeed in giving their pupils a well-rounded and informed historical education. History is written by the victors, and makes it difficult to change consensus. ![]() ![]() Rather, whoever controls the present controls the past, said Orwell (267). The biased picture of facts is certainly not due to a lack of historical documents from the time period. He points out that before 1945, only one African-American had been employed to teach history at any white college and university in America, and that most historians are white men. The author contends that textbooks are made to satisfy what they think the students, professors, and teachers want, as well as public opinion, which helps determine whether the approval committee will accept the book (265). ![]()
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