When I read this I thought “yes they are, but aren’t teachers biased as well?”, but then I read the following two bullets and I realized you might have had in mind a waaaaaay higher level of bias than I had.
Some of the books have a lot of material on how “godly” the founding fathers were, how america is like the fulfillment of prophecies, etc. I have no idea how bad normal history books are, though. For my folks, the opposite meme sort of won (“christians are a tiny, persecuted minority in this country”). Some people manage to believe both memes at the same time, but not my parents.
I don’t know much about the US, but here in Italy, until one or two decades ago, some people say history textbooks tended to have a left-wing bias whereby communists in the 20th century (esp. WWII) were depicted in a more favourable light; and then they were called out for this and they’ve probably overcompensated for that. (I don’t know much about 20th-century history from anywhere else, so I won’t judge myself.)
When I read this I thought “yes they are, but aren’t teachers biased as well?”, but then I read the following two bullets and I realized you might have had in mind a waaaaaay higher level of bias than I had.
Some of the books have a lot of material on how “godly” the founding fathers were, how america is like the fulfillment of prophecies, etc. I have no idea how bad normal history books are, though. For my folks, the opposite meme sort of won (“christians are a tiny, persecuted minority in this country”). Some people manage to believe both memes at the same time, but not my parents.
I don’t know much about the US, but here in Italy, until one or two decades ago, some people say history textbooks tended to have a left-wing bias whereby communists in the 20th century (esp. WWII) were depicted in a more favourable light; and then they were called out for this and they’ve probably overcompensated for that. (I don’t know much about 20th-century history from anywhere else, so I won’t judge myself.)