Jon and Matt are joined by  Dan, our co-worker, good friend, and fellow educator, to discuss the responsibilities of being a history teacher in the United States.

We discuss:

- Trump's absurdly silly "patriotic education" manifesto

- How many social studies teachers have been derelict at their duties 

- Why there is absolutely no need to give "both sides" or play devil's advocate to all issues 

- How Trump's pathological idea of American exceptionalism is already pervasive in nearly all institutions in society

- The consequences of history teachers reaffirming a curriculum based in American exceptionalism

Mentioned on the podcast: 

Gerald Horne's Counter Revolution of 1776

Noam Chomsky on the "Salt water fallacy," the false idea that American imperialism did not begin until 1898.

Corresponding Post: A Teacher's Declaration of War on Patriotic Education

Read our "In the Context of Empire" blog with corresponding and expanded posts to this content!

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