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Texas Education Board Is Trying to Infuse Schoolbooks with Ultraconservative Ideology

Mariah Blake, Washington Monthly. February 13, 2010.

"We are a Christian nation founded on Christian principles," says one board member. "The way I evaluate history textbooks is first I see how they cover Christianity and Israel."

Texas Social Studies Curriculum: Out With Civil Rights Leaders, in With McCarthyism!

Amanda Terkel, ThinkProgress. January 19, 2010.

And pro-McCarthy documents are just one addition. Other must-know-names: The Heritage Foundation and the Moral Majority.

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