Do parents have no right to object if the tenets of critical race theory that America is shot through with “systemic racism,” that whites are privileged from birth and blacks oppressed are taught as truth about the country to which they have given their loyalty and love?
Times Face-off: The MoD announcement that war records will be declassified after every 25 years has evoked mixed reactions. Two experts battle it out
Probal DasGupta: FOR
Declassifying files will boost research, acquaint Indians with their war history
On July 9, 1971, US secretary of state Henry Kissinger arrived in Peking for a secret meeting with Chinese premier Zhou Enlai. This was at the height of the Cold War against the Soviet Union, and the US saw an opportunity to entice communist China into its fold. A highlight of Kissinger’s successful visit was a book that Zhou gifted him. It was called ‘India’s China War’ by Neville Maxwell. Impressed, Kissinger told Zhou, “Reading that book showed me I could do business with you people.” A few months later when India and Pakistan went to war, President Richard Nixon and Kissinger’s sympathetic view on China, a Pakistani ally, was influenced by Maxwell’s book which blamed India for the 1962 India-China war.
Commentary: How history textbooks will deal with the US Capitol attack
The Conversation
Share The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol represented an event unlike any other in American history. But how will it be portrayed in history textbooks used in America’s K-12 schools and colleges? Here, three scholars of American history weigh in.
How soon can we expect this attack to be included in history textbooks?
Wendy L. Wall, professor of 20th-century American history at Binghamton University
The unprecedented nature of this attack, combined with the widespread sense that it marks a historical turning point, ensures that it will appear in textbooks as soon as publishing turnaround times allow.