Letters
What Our Kids Need to Know
Your Editor’s Letter (“Teach Your Children Well,” Sept/Oct) got me wondering not just about history, but about whose stories will we teach and how? What would a modern curriculum teach about the 12 U.S. presidents who owned slaves, Jefferson’s relationship with slave Sally Hemings, or how Andrew Jackson thought the “Trail of Tears” was a good idea? If the country is to become one nation, your closing paragraph rings true: “It’s both in our interest and in our power to make history come alive for the next generation.”
Robert J. Gill, The Villages, Florida
(Sept/Oct) is an eye-opener. As a retiring National Park Service ranger,
