Grace: Disputed AP course is about accepting that history isn’t black and white

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/grace-disputed-ap-course-is-about-accepting-that-history-isn/article_00b46ae0-3510-5488-98c0-fc9ed35d82b1.html




BRENDAN SULLIVAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Alex Bahe teaches his junior AP U.S. History class at Elkhorn South. The course has come under fire from conservatives who say its content is not suitably patriotic.

POSTED: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2014 1:00 AM
By Erin Grace / World-Herald columnist

Teacher Alex Bahe started his Advanced Placement U.S. History class dropping names that needed no introduction to his Elkhorn South students.

John Marshall. Alexander Hamilton. Thomas Jefferson.

“I believe we left off here,” Bahe said in a class last week, “talking about Aaron Burr.”

The students whipped out pencils and began scribbling notes as fast as Bahe talked. He sprinted through a recap of Burr, the former vice president who killed Hamilton in a duel and later was accused of treason for plotting to claim the Louisiana Purchase for his own. But since Burr hadn’t tried to carry out the alleged conspiracy, Marshall, as the chief justice of the Supreme Court, made the significant call to acquit.

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[MisterP]

1. that's what makes them maddest: see past people as people, not Founders of bronze or marble