As we reported in this month’s issue ofmagazine, the Texas State Board of Education will vote Nov. 21 on new social studies textbooks for public schools—and without your help there’s a chance it will approve books that a distinguished historian warned could lead students to "believe that Moses was the first American.”Our allies at the Texas Freedom Network reviewed the textbooks and found that extremists on the board are forcing publishers to include factually inaccurate claims about the exaggerated influence of Moses, the Ten Commandments and the “Judeo-Christian tradition” on America’s early democracy and legal structure.Here’s an example: “[The] biblical idea of a covenant, an ancient Jewish term meaning a special kind of agreement between the people and God, influenced the formation of colonial governments and contributed to our constitutional structure.” That’s from a McGraw-Hill government textbook. And it’s poised to enter public classrooms.These textbooks are so flawed they have no place in a public school government class!