So weird. I was just reading Lies My Teacher Taught Me and the first chapter is about the way American History textbooks like to gloss over or omit anything that would cast a negative light on its heroes, like Woodrow Wilson's white supremacy, and Helen Keller's staunch support of socialism. It stemmed from her research on blindness - she discovered that blindness was much more common in the working class because of industrial accidents and syphilitic blindness contracted through prostitution, and this made her sympathetic toward the working person.
The book is absolutely right, although very recently there are trends to question a bit more. I certainly wasn't taught anything about Keller's life except for her learning to write, read, and even speak. Stupid standard curriculum.
I don't want to threadjack, so if anyone wants to talk about this with me, we can start an new thread
So strange when the TFP intersects with my personal life.