There should be a White History Month in America. That way we can teach all about the things White Americans have done in history, like:

And so on. No fear of running out of topics: there is more than one a day! I am sure my commenters can come up with tons more, probably some big ones that are not coming to mind at the moment. I did not list things that often do get covered in history class in America, however poorly, like Lincoln or Reconstruction.

White History Month should be in November, the same month as Thanksgiving, the holiday which observes the supposed beginning of White America.

Schoolchildren can do reports on:

John Brown (required)

Andrew Goodman

Michael Schwerner

Thaddeus Stevens

Jim Zwerg

William Lloyd Garrison

Suggested reading of White American authors:

Howard Zinn: “A People’s History of the United States (P.S.)” (2010)



James W. Loewen: ”Lies My Teacher Told Me” (2007)



Thomas J. Sugrue: “The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit” (2005)



Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic: “Critical Race Theory” (2001)



Morris Dees: “A Season of Justice: The Life and Times of a Civil Rights Lawyer” (1992)



Virginia Foster Durr: “Outside the Magic Circle” (1990)



Lois Stalvey: “The Education of a WASP” (1989)



Edward S. Herman & Noam Chomsky: “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” (1988)



William English Walling:“Race War in the North” (1908) – out of print



Abraham Lincoln: “Speeches and Writings : 1859-1865”



Henry David Thoreau: “Civil Disobedience” (1849), “A Plea for Captain John Brown” (1860)



Harriet Beecher Stowe: “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852)



I used to say there was no need for White History Month in America because it is the month that never ends: American history is taught year-round from a white point of view and makes white people the heroes, the good guys. But, as we know from the Texas school board and James Loewen, it is not a true history that is being taught but rather Caucasian Mythology (white supremacist propaganda).

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