Do you remember America? If you read about it in a history textbook, you probably learned about a

land of oppression, racism, sexism, income inequality, police brutality, and imperial wars. Aside

from that, it was a great place. That is how America is portrayed in most American high schools and

colleges, and America's media, films, and by its progressive politicians. In the words of filmmaker

Michael Moore, America is a nation founded on genocide, built on the backs of slaves, and maintained

through the subjugation of women to second-class citizenship and economic disempowerment. Is that

America's history? Is that who Americans were and are? Georgia Orwell understood that the most

effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their

history. History is much more than a collection of facts. History, and our understanding of it,

tells us who we are as a people in the same way your personal memories and experiences define and

shape who you are. Wipe out your memory and you wipe out your identity. When you raise a generation

of Americans to hold their countries past and contempt by exaggerating America's faults and

ignoring its triumphs, then they will have no respect for American institutions or the belief

sun which the nation is based. It hasn't always been this way. Until the last few decades,

liberals and conservatives alike shared a common understanding of America's origins,

its history, and its mission of spreading liberty within America and around the world.

They recognized America as the country of the pilgrims in Jamestown, of the self-evident

truths of the Declaration of Independence, of the individual rights one through evolution and

secured in the U.S. Constitution. This was the country of the Frontier spirit and of almost

unlimited possibilities, the country that paid for the sin of slavery with the carnage of its

civil war, of economic dynamism and endless invention, of unparalleled individual opportunity,

and the country that defeated fascism and communism in the 20th century.

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