About The Other Half of History

The Other Half of History is a website designed to expose students to the half of American history that most history professors choose not to teach. The facts and perspectives, in other words, that might militate against the prevailing political orthodoxy on our nation’s campuses.

College faculties in the United States lean overwhelmingly to the left, and many professors’ extreme views put them far outside the American mainstream. An Education professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, for example, boasts openly of having planted bombs in the Pentagon during the Viet Nam war. A History professor at Central Connecticut State once published a book supportive of gun control laws, using fraudulent data to provide support for his position. A history prof at Columbia has celebrated the defeat and posthumous humiliation of US soldiers in Mogadishu, and expressed hope for similar treatment of American GI’s in the future.

This kind of extremism is close enough to the “mainstream” on college campuses that all of the teachers mentioned above are still employed.

More centrist views are frequently not tolerated. In 2006, for example, Harvard University forced its president to resign because he had suggested, in violation of the mandatory feminist ideology on campus, that the observed differences between men and women in math and science scholarship could be partly genetic in origin.

Liberal professors frequently misuse their authority in an attempt to indoctrinate, rather than educate, the next generation of Americans. In history classes this frequently takes the form of emphasizing certain facts and perspectives while withholding others. Presenting, in other words, only half of the story.

The mission of The Other Half of History is to give students a glimpse of the half of history that is being withheld from them, in the hopes that some will be inspired to study the history of this wonderful country on their own.