{"id":2998,"date":"2020-06-22T15:03:35","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T19:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/?p=2998"},"modified":"2020-06-23T07:12:43","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T11:12:43","slug":"erasing-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dahlman.online\/index.php\/2020\/06\/22\/erasing-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Erasing History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">History Teacher<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I did a lot of things in my career in public education. I was  high school Dean of Students,  President of the Teacher\u2019s Union, and a track, cross country, and wrestling coach.&nbsp;&nbsp;But for the vast majority of my career, I was a social studies teacher.&nbsp;&nbsp;I taught American Government, American History, World History, Economics, Current Affairs, and even Psychology to sixth graders through seniors over twenty-six years.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So the word \u201chistory\u201d has deep meaning to me.&nbsp;&nbsp;And I took my mission as a history teacher seriously.&nbsp;&nbsp;I understood that, for most of my students, this would be the foundation of what they knew about the \u201cAmerican Experience\u201d for the rest of their lives.&nbsp;&nbsp;They would participate (or not) as citizens, making decisions about the direction of the Nation, based in part on what they learned in \u201cmy\u201d history class.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That didn\u2019t mean that I wanted them to have a specific \u201cpolitical\u201d view.&nbsp;&nbsp;I wasn\u2019t indoctrinating my students into any particular ideology, including mine.&nbsp;&nbsp;In fact, many of those students are shocked reading \u201cTrump World\u201d essays today.&nbsp;&nbsp;They had no idea of my affiliations.&nbsp;&nbsp;And that\u2019s how it should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So when people today talk about \u201cerasing\u201d history, I take that very seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Texas History<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>I went to school in the 1960\u2019s and 70\u2019s.&nbsp;&nbsp;There was no such thing as \u201cBlack Studies\u201d back then.&nbsp;&nbsp;Our textbooks were written with few African American participants.&nbsp;&nbsp;Booker T Washington, George Washington Carver, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman were the apparent extent of Black participation in America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I didn\u2019t find out until much later, was that our textbooks were written to the specifications of the Texas State Board of Education.&nbsp;&nbsp;The entire state of Texas purchased a single American History textbook, a massive sale for any publisher.&nbsp;&nbsp;So texts were written to appeal to them.&nbsp;&nbsp;There were more pages on the Texas War of Independence, the Alamo and the battle of San Jacinto, than on World War I.&nbsp;&nbsp;In the 1960\u2019s, Texans weren\u2019t interested in the contributions of African Americans, and so neither were we.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The First Casualty<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t until college, and my first years as a teacher that I realized the vast contribution of Black Americans to the \u201cAmerican Experience\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;I spent a great deal of time re-learning the American story, this time from the perspective of those brought in chains.&nbsp;&nbsp;I learned that there was a lot of \u201cerasing\u201d in our history, even before the Revolutionary War.&nbsp;&nbsp;Take Crispus Attucks, the first casualty of the American Revolution.&nbsp;&nbsp;He was shot in the \u201cBoston Massacre\u201d, when British troops returned thrown snowballs with musket fire.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crispus Attucks was a Black man, a man who escaped slavery.  But when Paul Revere engraved the scene of the massacre, he made Attucks white for the prints headed South. The revolutionaries in Boston needed the support of the South; it wouldn\u2019t do for the first martyr of the Revolution to be Black.  Erasing history goes back a long way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Monuments Today<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>So what about all of the statues and monuments that are in question today?&nbsp;&nbsp;In the museums and on the battlefields, those monuments make sense.&nbsp;&nbsp;The figure of Robert E. Lee on horseback, posted on Seminary Ridge at Gettysburg should remain.&nbsp;&nbsp;He forever overlooks his greatest failure with Pickett\u2019s Charge, a fitting fate for the \u201cgreatest\u201d general of his time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But his position in Richmond on Monument Avenue isn\u2019t about his actions.&nbsp;&nbsp;That statue was erected in 1890, when the history of the Civil War was being \u201crevised\u201d by Southerners into the mythological \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.encyclopediavirginia.org\/lost_cause_the#its1\">lost cause<\/a>\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was part of the regression of the South to the Jim Crow era, when Black people were treated as little more than the slaves they had been.&nbsp;&nbsp;It was only a few years later, about when the Lee Monument was erected in Charlottesville, that the Ku Klux Klan became a national power for racism and hate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many of the Confederate \u201cmemorials\u201d that are being attacked today were erected as part of that revisionist history movement.&nbsp;&nbsp;They were put up to \u201cerase\u201d the history of slavery and rebellion that caused the Civil War.&nbsp;&nbsp;Memorials are in places like Brandenburg, Kentucky, just down the Ohio River from Louisville, a town that was part of the Union for the entire Civil War.&nbsp;&nbsp;They celebrate the losing side of the rebellion, and they stand for those who refused to give up their slaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">American Sin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The incredibly fierce reaction to the removal of monuments is based on one of two things.\u00a0\u00a0The first is the \u201cSanta Claus\u201d effect.\u00a0\u00a0Through perhaps no fault of their own, long cherished beliefs people had about American history are being challenged.\u00a0\u00a0The \u201cnoble\u201d Confederates, battling for states\u2019 rights and their homeland, was a story long told to the American people.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I saw it again in a middle school curriculum this year: \u201c\u2026slavery was not the cause of the Civil War\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0Just like Santa Claus, that\u2019s just not true.\u00a0\u00a0But for slavery there would have been no cause for the Civil War.\u00a0\u00a0No one likes being told that there is no Santa Claus, or that Robert E. 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