Oklahoma isn’t the only state where Republicans are waging war on high school history class.

Conservatives in a handful of other states, including Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and - no surprise here - Texas are now pushing bills that would ban the College Board’s AP U.S. history curriculum.

The main issue that conservatives have with the current AP history curriculum is that it’s “too liberal” and supposedly focuses too much on the “negative” parts of American history, whatever that means. So Conservatives want to replace it with a curriculum that focuses on topics conservatives like - topics like, you know, Reagan, Reagan, and, just for good measure, more Reagan.

In all seriousness, though, there’s a really good reason that conservatives are freaking out about what kind of history curriculum is going to be taught in our classrooms. And that’s the simple fact that the history of America is the history of the continuous progressive transformation of this country.

All the great accomplishments of American democracy, from the revolution itself to healthcare reform, have been progressive accomplishments and they’ve come about because progressives rallied for change and said “no” to the old order. It was progressives who in the 1760s and 1770s took the streets and then the battlefields of America to fight against British tyranny.

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-Thom

Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... Malcolm X Remembered 50 Years Later (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Be sure to check out our new videos: CARBON, LAST HOURS & GREEN WORLD RISING - narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio

Need to Know: Is Greece Embracing Radical Reform?
- Mark Weisbrot, Center for Economic Policy and Research (CEPR) / Just Foreign Policy

Screwed: O'Reilly's Combat Experience Lie Just Got Worse
- Jeremy Holden, Media Matters

Best of the Rest: The Fight Over Female Viagra
- Martha Kempner, RH Reality Check

Malcolm X Remembered 50 Years Later
- Herb Boyd, The Diary of Malcolm X: El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz 1964 / City College of New York

Everything You Know Is Wrong: Debunking the Latest Smear Campaign Against Marijuana
- Paul Armentano, National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) / Freedom Leaf, Inc. / Marijuana Is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink?

Monday's Daily Stack

Article: "Rudy Giuliani’s Response to Charges of Racism: Obama’s Mother Was White" by Josh Feldman.

Law: "The National Labor Relations Act (The Wagner Act)", 1935.

Law: "Taft-Hartley Labor Act", 1947.

Article: "Republican Party Platform of 1956", August 20, 1956.

Case: "Dred Scott v. Sandford", 1857.

Case: "Plessy v. Ferguson", 1896 (separate but equal).

Case: "Brown v. Board Of Education", 1954 (Segregation in public schools) (overturned Plessy v. Ferguson).

Case: "Roe v. Wade", 1973.

Case: "Griswold v. Connecticut", 1965.

Quote: "There is now 1 same-sex married couple in Texas for every 6.4 million uninsured Texans. Guess which "problem" the GOP is trying to solve." - LOLGOP.

Article: "AT&T is putting a price on privacy. That is outrageous" by Sophia Cope and Jeremy Gillula.

Article: "You know what Republicans really, really hate?" by Scuba.

Article: "Can You Believe My Damned Union?" by Ken Spring.

Article: "Conservatives complain there were too many black people at the ‘racist’ Oscars" by Scott Kaufman.

Law: "Alien and Sedition Acts", 1798.

Book: The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot, Russell Kirk.

Video: Do the Rich Pay Their Fair Share? - UCLA Professor of Economics, Lee Ohanian.

Quote: "[A conservative is someone who] stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it." " by William F. Buckley Jr.

Article: "Dear Clarence Thomas: It Happened on July 4, 1776" by Thom Hartmann.

Letter: "The omission of a bill of rights" from Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, December 20, 1787. "I will now add what I do not like..."

Book: "The Crash of 2016: The Plot to Destroy America--and What We Can Do to Stop It" by Thom Hartmann.

Quote: "The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant" -- Maximilien Robespierre".

Article: "Scott Walker Pushes ALEC 'Right to Work' Bill, Divide and Conquer Comes Full Circle" by Mary Bottari.

Article: "Union Leaders Vow to Fight Walker on Right to Work in Wisconsin" by John McCormick, Mark Niquette.

Hour Two: Did Europe and the UK underestimate the Ukraine?
- Stephen Cohen, The Nation

Book: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives by Stephen Cohen.

Article: "Ukraine: UK and EU 'badly misread' Russia" by BBC.

Article: "Cuban missile crisis" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Bernie Sanders calls for two tuition-free years of public college" by Joseph Lawler.

Article: "The War Next Door: Can Merkel's Diplomacy Save Europe?" by Der Spiegel.

Article: "Pro-Russia rebels 'to withdraw weapons from Ukraine frontline’" by France 24.

Article: "Kiev says cannot withdraw heavy weapons as attacks persist" by Pavel Polityuk and Anton Zverev.

Article: "Ukrainian army refuses to start withdrawing heavy weapons" by DW.

Article: "US Congress passes Russia sanctions, arms for Ukraine" by AFP.

Article: "At Munich Conference, US Hawks Press for Military Escalation Towards Russia" by Sarah Lazare.

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones

Article: "DHS Funding Fight Enters Zero Hour" by Justin Duckham.

Article: "White House echoes Pentagon chief on transgender troops" by Tom Vanden Brook.

Article: "Security Tightened at Mall of America After Terrorist Video Threat" by Louise Radnofsky and Kathleen Madigan.

Article: "DOJ Asks Texas Judge To Halt Immigration Ruling" by Mary Jarvis.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman.

Article: "TRNS News Notes- 2/23" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: What's really behind the polar vortex?
- Dr. Michael Mann, The Hockey Stick and The Climate Wars...Dispatches From the Front Lines

Article: "Is the melting Arctic causing frigid winters?" by Carolyn Gramling.

Tweet: "These northeastern winters are brutal. I'm moving to Alaska:" - Michael E. Mann.

Article: "Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher" by Justin Gillis and John Schwartz.

Quote: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" by Grover Norquist.

Event: Minneapolis, February 27th, 2015 "AM950's 11th Annual Blue State Ball".

Book: "Screwed: The Undeclared War Against The Middle Class" by Thom Hartmann. Get "Screwed" by Thom Hartmann!

Video: Selma - John Legend ft. Common Music Video - "Glory" (2015) HD.

Quote: "WISCONSIN - When asked how history will judge him, Gov. Scott Walker said, "If I have my way, there will be no one to teach history." - Andy Borowitz".

Article: "Republican Candidates Descend on Iowa" by Andy Borowitz.

Quote: "He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past." George Orwell, 1984.

Book: "Nineteen Eighty-Four" by George Orwell.

Article: "Title IX" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Palin’s Twist on Paul Revere" by FactCheck.org.

Law: "Clean Air Act", 1963.

Article: "Banking Goes Postal" by David Moberg.

Article: "Georgia’s New Plan To Make Voting Even Harder" by Alice Ollstein.

Article: "Eric Holder: Moratorium On Death Penalty 'Would Be Appropriate' Pending Supreme Court Decision" by Mollie Reilly.

Article: "Oklahoma Lawmakers Vote Overwhelmingly To Ban Advanced Placement U.S. History" by Judd Legum.

Article: "Sanders: 'We Need Revolution in Way Higher Education is Funded'" by Deirdre Fulton.

Tuesday on The Thom Hartmann Program, 12-3pm ET

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Conversations w/Great Minds - Steve Fraser - The Second Gilded Age? Part 1

Rumble: The Real Terrorist Threat in America

Conversations w/Great Minds - Steve Fraser - The Myth of the Free Market - Part 2

Rumble: America Was Founded on Liberal Values

Full Show 2/20/2015: Conversations with Great Minds: Steve Fraser

In tonight’s Conversations with Great Minds, Steve Fraser co-founder of the American Empire Project and author of The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power talks with Thom about the rise of American capitalism, attempts to save democracy, and today’s era of delusional freedom and fear.

Veteran Union Organizer and author Stewart Acuff, American Encore Policy Director Patrick Hedger, and Jennifer Kerns of the Washington Times and The Blaze join Thom on set for the Big Picture Rumble. The Big Picture panel discusses the Department of Homeland Security’s ring-wing warning, AP history on the chopping block, the union comeback, Bill O’Reilly’s faux pas, and Mayor Giulian’s Obama slam.

Thom Hartmann on Labor & Economic News - February 23, 2015

Caller: Thom, You're a Science Denier over 9/11...

Caller: America Doesn't Need Another Tax!

The More Corrupt a Nation, the More Profitable the Businesses

Caller: The Government is Modifying our Weather...

Caller: Can You Explain how the Fire Department is Socialist?

What About Rudy Giuliani's Values?

Bill O' Reilly has a Brian Williams Problem...

Caller: Dems Need to tell us What's in the TPP...

Global Warming: Welcome to our New Normal!