Still working on the three I mentioned earlier, but now am also reading 'Hope Leslie, Or Early Times in Massachusetts', by Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 'The Songs and Poems of Robert Burns', and just starting a very interesting and very disturbing book called 'The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists are Murdering Our Past', by Keith Windschuttle. A couple of quotes I've already saved...we're sure seeing the results of this!
"The multiculturalist movement has been adopted by feminist studies and black studies in the United States to label the whole body of Western learning as nothing but the ideology of dead, white males. Multiculturalists want the curriculum of higher education to be rewritten from a 'gender specific' or 'Afrocentric' perspective."
"The results were that humanities and social science departments within universities had abandoned objectivity and truth and became hopelessly politicized. Most young people today were taught to scorn the traditional values of Western culture - equality, freedom, democracy, human rights - as hollow rhetoric used to mask the self-interest of the wealthy and powerful. This teaching had bred a cynical, amoral, self-centered younger generation who lacked any sense of inherited wisdom from the past."
