Commentator Walt Rubel shares his thoughts on how history is taught in schools.
COMMENTARY: I graduated from both high school and college thinking that the Underground Railroad was an actual train, with Harriet Tubman at the controls.
When I read last week about the controversy regarding plans by the Las Cruces school district to develop a more equitable curriculum, I thought back to my school days and how shallow and misleading my education was as to the contributions made by those who did not sail over willingly from Europe, and their descendants.
The history of our nation taught when I was in school was one that always ended in redemption. I learned that slaves were brought to America long before the revolution against the British, and that they were treated with horrible cruelty and brutality. But redemption came in the form of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation.