Abstract
BY NOW, EVERYONE in history business has heard sad story of National History Standards.' Funded by National Endowment for Humanities and United States Department of Education, and widely supported by history and education establishment, they were nonetheless slammed in media as revisionist, un-American, politically correct, and probably communist. Every right-wing commentator stepped up to beat standards. Phyllis Schlafly called them an attempt to brainwash students with left-wing revisionism, contrasting, with deadpan naivete, the history that really happened to the liberal brainwashing produced by left-wing academics.2 George F. Will called them, in his own cranky way, besotted with cranky anti-Americanism of campuses.3 The U.S. Senate passed a resolution condemning them. A committee of historians was quickly convened to suggest revisions.4
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