(Due to the length of this article, it will be published in two separate posts)
PART ONE
A history book written by James W. Loewen with a sub-title
“Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, discloses what is
missing from textbooks. In Addition, it discusses historical events that
happened differently from narratives of textbooks. The book contains many
interesting historical facts, that one may not have even read anywhere, or have
not read in a way of achieving the same conclusion. To understand why in such a rich and
plentiful country as the United States, where everyone from any part of the
world is striving to migrate to, significant historical events are omitted from
its history, one should examine American politics. Although it is claimed to be
a multi-party democracy, in fact there is only one party that is almost always
voted into the office in all elections, a party with two factions on the left
(called Democratic) and on the right (called Republican). A minority of well to
do people help candidates to be elected in their selected faction, and almost
half of the nation do not participate in elections at all. In late 1970s, with the election of Ronald Reagan, many of public benefits were either eliminated or weakened, until the last president of the 20th century, William Clinton, made a sharp right turn, and as a result, policies of the Democratic Party became much closer to those of the Republican Party.
