Foner Disapproves!
Eric Foner, Most Famous Professor of All Time and CC ’63, stopped by the Colbert Report last night to talk textbooks and Texas. Mr. Colbert was discussing a recent Texas Schoolboard vote approving a “conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks.”
Who better to comment than the author of your AP US History textbook: Sir Foner himself! Foner sat for a brief interview with Colbert and spoke about what it means to alter history. He wore a blue tie, and Bwog wants just go to his office hours and talk about everything. Watch the clip! Foner comes in at about three minutes in.
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Tags: colbert report, eric foner, history, tv
17 March 2010 @ 2:15 PM · 9 comments
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last november, the tx. legislature accidentally banned all marriage in the state. http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-5700676-503544.html
so really, what’s the harm in a little skewed history if it would mean erasing their ineptitude from future minds?
The only author of *my* AP US History textbook was Professor Alan Brinkley, Ph.D.
Love Foner, but Brinkley is the AP God.
Anti-Texas: 1930s Texas governor on not teaching foreign languages in schools: “If English was good enough for Jesus then I suppose it should be good enough for us!”
Pro-Texas: one of the best economies in the current crisis.
Anti-Texas: George. Just… George. (the lady above was clearly a distant relative of Dubya, btw.)
Pro-Texas: Chuck. Norris.
We win.
Alan Brinkley = my boyfriend during my junior year.
colbert’s interviews are always so irritating… foner is pretty funny in person but colbert’s overdominating interview style doesn’t let that shine through. give [foner] liberty!
Agreed. I just saw Colbert’s interview with the author of “The History of White People,” and it was basically five minutes of “LET HER TALK.” (though his spiel on Scots-Irish was hilarious.) The problem is that I can’t tell if he’s still emulating republican talk show programs (i.e. Bill O’Reilly never lets his interviewees talk) or if that’s really his interview style.
I think it is partly his emulation of right wing talk show hosts, but this is where he should act more like a more civil person.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124861233