Politically Correct History?

woo I'm surprised because after reading the previous posts about textbooks, I disagree.  As far as modern history goes, I think America is being presented in a much more negative light--I don't think we do enough glorifying, personally.  I think I've studied more about slavery, sex, women, religion, and Vietnam than about George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, the Revolution, the Civil War, and other American heroes/events we can learn from.  What happened to memorizing the Gettysburg Address or the Declaration of Independence?  We're becoming a "politically correct" (whatever that means) nation, and the way our history is written is showing it.  Here's a quote from an interesting article I read on the Ayn Rand Institute website about this topic: "...we have a vast assortment of groups demanding that the accounts of important events be altered so that various 'sensibilities'--of women, of blacks, of homosexuals, of religionists--can be accommodated."  So now the collective is more important than the individual in history as well.  History teachers/writers are denying that there are objective facts of history, demonstrating a new belief in what the author of the article calls "pressure group whims" and "history by group agreement."  

Another author goes on to say that academic history is actually being driven by a hatred for America.  Examples: the modern claims that the colonization of America was an act of genocide to the Indians, the Founding Fathers were "racist, sexist, classist, homophobic, Euro-centric bigots", the winning of the American West was capitalist pillage...etc.  He claims that historians "dissolve American history into a chaotic hodge-podge of trivial stories about politically correct victim groups", sacrificing the great individuals.  He may be a little bit too critical and a little extreme, but I agree with his general message.  It's especially interesting since we're moving on to politics in class.  Sometimes politics and history can interfere! :-)