is as low as you can go. >> in many cases, history isn't just being white washed, it's not being taught at all. here is a question for you. >> the war in vietnam was fought between blank and blank. 22% replied the war in vietnam was fought between north and south korea. the average course spends four minutes on vietnam. [explosion] >> another reason why the textbooks don't seem to get into anything real is that they are usually not written by the people whose names are on the covers. they are written by flunkies. i'm reading one of these books, "pathways to the present." all the way i say to myself, wait a minute, didn't i just read this? true enough, right over here in this other book paragraph after paragraph, these two books bike