There’s a spreading trend that has me worried as a history major: historical revisionism. And what’s most alarming is that it’s done most frequently by people who really don’t know anything about history.

Showing its support for the growing craze of paranoia and absurd conspiracy theories being touted by the right-wing, The Patriot has gone straight off the deep end in a section entitled “The One Party Classrooms” in which the author, (mysteriously named “the Patriot”) took it upon him/herself to root out nefarious left-wing propaganda in our [...]