Avoiding Biased History

Part 2 of Avoiding Biased History in the 6th season.

Year six of Avoiding Biased History begins with a fresh new introduction.

Mark Patinkin, a Providence Journal columnist and a Pulitzer finalist has produced an outstanding book on post-October 7th Middle East. "The Holy Land At War: A Journey Through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza," is a must-read for people who are trying to make sense of the ongoing tragedy taking place in the Middle East.

Biased History takes a look at Jason Stanley's 2024 work entitled "Erasing History: How Fascists rewrite the Past to Control the Future." History classes are on the front lines in this ongoing debate about the true meaning of America.

Some on the liberal left believe that Blacks are legitimate rebels just like the original American Revolution Patriots. Many conservatives disagree and paint Blacks as fomenting violent riots. Which side is right?

The Internet and social media have produced a firehose of biased information in the 21st century. That information needs to be run through a filter of professional communities in order to produce knowledge.

Imagine a Super Bowl where the Kansas City Chiefs win the game but the losing Detroit Lions are declared the winner. Has America's historic fear of the mob led the USA to become a nation where the Minority runs the show?

Do you think that there are only two ideologies? Namely liberals and conservatives? Think again. Let's learn about Jason Blakely's 2024 book entitled "Lost in Ideology" that will teach us about more than twenty ideologies that dominate our political lives.

Do Republicans favor the Constitution over the Declaration of Independence? Do Democrats favor the Declaration of Independence over the Constitution? Find out in this latest episode of Biased History.

It is completely normal for a person to have biased political views in a democracy such as the United States. But where do these biased views come from? This podcast argues that one's biased political views partly come from one's biased interpretation of United States history, whether a conservative interpretation or a liberal one.

Is it Politics? Are born Liberal or Conservative? Psychollogical Reasons? or our biased interpretion of American history? Find out!

Liberals and Conservatives switch sides on which lives matter, cancel culture, innocence, and victimhood.

Liberals only support just wars in American history, while Conservatives automatically assume that all American wars are just.

Matthew Dallek's 2023 book entitled "Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right" gets the Biased History stress test in a book review of this important work.

Liberals believe that it is insane that assault weapons are legal in parts of the USA. Conservatives seem to enjoy that the NRA has control over the Republican Party. What is the gun solution to the fear and anxiety that dominates the American landscape? More guns or less guns?

It is completely normal for a person to have biased political views in a democracy such as the United States. But where do these biased views come from? This podcast argues that one's biased political views partly come from one's biased interpretation of United States history, whether a conservative interpretation or a liberal one.

The Pledge of Allegiance was written by a left-wing socialist, yet conservatives claim ownership of the Pledge today. Why? Find out on this latest episode of Biased History.

Joe McCarthy of the 1950s and Donald Trump of the 21st century are not identical historical figures. But both Trump and McCarthy touched a political nerve in their respective Americas that both inspired part of the country as well as divided America at the same time. 3CZfMS2EQKahRX3Tbewf

After Pearl Harbor, conservatives and liberals combined to create the "John Wayne Memory" of World War II. Leftists countered with a more complicated and nuanced interpretation entitled the "Howard Zinn Memory" of World War II.

Which is more un-American in 2023, Marxism or Neo-McCarthyism? Biased History takes a look at Mark R. Levin's 2021 work, "American Marxism."

Is the Obama-Trump-Biden era the most divisive in American history? History is dominated by continuity and change. Biased history points out ten other divisive times in American history. Historical perspective teaches Americans that 2023 may not be as bad as previously believed.

Many Baby Boomers remember that religion was at the center of American culture when the churches were filled during the 1950s and 1960s. Kevin Kruse's book, "One Nation Under God: How Corporate America invented Christian Christian America" argues that an alliance of capitalists and religious leaders such as Billy Graham manipulated religion to combat FDR's big government New Deal.

Biased History takes a look at Jason Steinhauer's "History Disrupted: How Social Media and the World Wide Web have changed the Past." How have Facebook, Instagram, Wikipedia, and Twitter affected the study of history?

Biased History analyzes conservative Fox News host Pete Hegseth's "Battle for the American Mind." Co-authored by David Goodwin, this book argues that the progressives ruined public education by instituting Marxist ideas. Some liberal pushback is given to the book's thesis.

This version of Biased History examines the book, "Criminal Injustice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who it Hurts the Most" from Conservative author Rafael A. Mangual. Some liberal pushback to Mangual's main Conservative points are made.