George "Macacawitz" Allen on Guns

[DanaC]

History isn't static. Historical scholarship is a constantly changing and revising affair. However, this is about how history is taught to children, rather than scholarship. How history is taught is and has always been subject to the political zeitgeist and prevailing orthodoxy. The book you are referring to is from a time when the concept of 'Empire' was still tenously clinging on, albeit it in terms of something lost. Nowadays, that concept is a historical one and brings little or no influence to bear upon the teaching of our young.