yay... Thank god follow college. This way I can have liberal bullshit crammed down my throat instead of conservative bullshit.

It's absurd to teach history in an idealogically nuetral tone. One, it makes it dry as all holy heck and noone would read it, and two, well, it just doesn't work. Especially in the social arena. All history will be influenced by the victors, or even more so by the losers (Roman forces noted defeating an army of Gauls that numbered somewhere beyond the actual number of Gauls alive at the time...)

That said, this stuff IS the sort of absurd conservative crap that makes the repubs such a pathetic party that I'd be ashamed to be associated with. Discarding Jefferson and his influence on the development of the US? In favor of Aquinas? Ironically they seem to have forgotten Aquinas was actually tried for heresy three times, and convicted his third time (somehow the excellent defences he put up during the first two trials were inefective at his third. That he was dead prior to the third trial could have been part of the challenge.)

Anyone who wants to challenge Jeffersons influence in the creation of this country, and MANY of the principles on which it was founded, needs to have a handful of those stupid little american flag lapel pins shoved up their backdoor and sent on a jog around DC mall a few times.