Matthew McKenna
Donald Trump may have just provided the catalyzing spark for a rejuvenation of effective history education in the United States. Counterintuitive as it may sound, the polarizing orange man may have just brought to national attention some grave flaws with our American approach to teaching out own history. With his platform of instituting “Patriotic Education,” in the what he has described as the “1776 Commission,” the president and his acolytes are seeking to reverse what they see as left wing brainwashing, akin to “child abuse” in the classrooms. The apparent goal expressed by the 45th president, is that education would be a tool utilized to reinforce and invigorate patriotism in the populace, and given Trump’s own trajectory, bolster an American nationalism.