The Tom Woods Show, episode 849.

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Hi, everybody. Tom Woods here.

We're talking today about the AP history exam, and in particular the guidelines that teachers of AP history classes have been given about the curriculum.

And this is tricky because you realize if you're going to have an exam that's given to the

whole country, then there's got to be some kind of national curriculum behind it.

Or how are you going to make sure everybody's prepared properly for the exam?

So there's a lot of stuff tied up into this whole AP history exam thing. And by the way, I never

took the AP history exam myself. I took chemistry and calculus, but I never took the AP history

exam. I didn't care about history. I had no interest in history whatsoever in high school.

They had made darn sure it was the most boring topic imaginable. So I avoided it like the plague.

So who knows how I came to become a historian. It certainly wasn't from inspiration in high school.

That's for darn sure. Well, my guests today have recently

delivered a paper at the American Historical Association on this very issue, on the evolving

guidelines for AP history people and what these guidelines say about American history. And

are the guidelines horrible? Are they acceptable? Are they getting better or worse?

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