The United States history survey course has become a battlefield in the contemporary culture wars. Both within and outside the academy, conservative critics complained that the standard textbook narrative represents a triumph of 1960s radicalism. What the New Left could not accomplish on the barricades, it achieved in the classroom. A small angry group of anti-American radicals, in the words of Rush Limbaugh, have bullied their way into the power positions in academia. Driven underground, the countercultural politics of sixties radicals survived and triumphed, insidiously filling the textbooks and poisoning the minds of today's students with radical propaganda. It is a cheap-shot, leftist point-of-view of history, Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, said of the proposed national history standards, a document that reflected the prevailing consensus in contemporary American historical scholarship. Everything that is European or American, or has to do with white people is evil and oppressive.'