Perhaps you have already heard about this. The Texas Board of non-Education has demanded a re-write of American history textbooks to include downgrading the fact that slavery was a primary cause of the Civil War, only once mentioning the century of segregation thereafter, and promoting and extremist defining of capitalism. Read and be frightened by right-wing propaganda masquerading as history:
http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/t...nions-as-fact/