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We should tell real American adventure stories to teach our boys about heroes

From young Washington to the Alamo, a century of leftist curriculum has drained real adventure from education

By Frank Miniter Fox News

Published July 3, 2026 5:00am EDT

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My 13-year-old son’s "social studies" textbooks appear to be written by committees whose chief concern is to dull boys’ minds in order to make them open to indoctrination by politically correct dictum.

Indeed, the very term "social studies" was promulgated by a Progressive Era committee.

"The social studies are understood to be those whose subject matter relate to the organization and development of human society, and to man as a member of social groups," decided the National Education Association’s (NEA) Committee on Social Studies in 1916. They thought it would be better to present history in the context of social narratives to teach politically useful interpretations.

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The bad idea soon spread across the land.

This painting, Washington Crossing the Delaware (by Emanuel Leutze, American, 1816-1868), 1851, shows George Washington's crossing of the Delaware River on the night of Dec. 25-26, 1776, as part of a surprise sneak attack on the British Army during the American Revolutionary War. (GraphicaArtis via Getty Images)

And so boys, now for more than a century, have not been........

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