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- The books have the same publisher. They credit the same authors. But they are customized for students in different states, and their contents sometimes diverge in ways that reflect the nation’s deepest partisan divides.
Hundreds of differences — some subtle, others extensive — emerged in a New York Times analysis of eight commonly used American history textbooks in California and Texas, two of the nation’s largest markets.
This article appears to be a précis of James Loewen's (unfortunately titled) book, "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong" The shit that Southerners pull to fuck with children's brains is tantamount of child abuse.