readers digest version of howard zinn might be close.

about the truth behind historical markers.
why i wasnt surprised by the whole confederate monument bs.

They are privately paid for and are not required to be even remotely accurate.

I don’t remember it too clearly now but I remember enjoying it.

One thing we were never taught is how we brought disease to the new world that killed a lot of the indigenous people.

but at a Catholic school it sort of dovetailed with the religion.
I never heard of the trail of tears until my kids were learning about it in the 90s

in the ‘70’s. Nowadays I have my doubts about the implications that it was done on purpose, or even if it was done at all (how long does a germ live in a blanket) since we didn’t have a clue what germs were at the time, but we did “learn” it.

Europeans just brought diseases the indigenous people didn't build antibodies to.

Sounds interesting.

One of the common refrains was "it was about economics, not slavery...."

Yes, it was about economics. Not like the southern economy was entirely dependent on slavery or anything...

The hour he's on goes extremely fast.

did some looking and Fugelsang has Kenneth C. Davis on occasionally I am pretty sure. Davis wrote a similar set of books "Don't Know Much About History"

They were not among those who had to be deprogrammed in their first college history classes. (The first college history class I took had a lot kids who were shocked.)

Howard Zinn was one of our kids assigned high school texts. If parents couldn't afford it or refused to buy it, their teacher would be a socialist and provide students with their own copy.

My kids also had Lies My Teacher Told Me.

I have similar beefs with high school biology texts. Many are arranged so the topics of evolution and human sexuality can be easily skipped by teachers who would rather teach fairy tales than science.

Sex education ought to be an intrinsic part of the school curriculum starting in kindergarten so there's no surprises when children start to get interested in sex, and so they can recognize potential sexual predators, or if horrible things happen, seek out responsible adults to remove them from harm and defend them.

Easily one of the best teachers I ever had. Her US history AP class was mostly taught from Zinn, as well as some other sources.

Only teacher I've had too that didn't lecture in outline form....... Everything was concept maps.

Learned more about US history that year than I did K-8 combined.

There is an interesting chapter about the treatment of John Brown and Abraham Lincoln in history books. When I was a freshman in college I did a paper on Lincoln for a history course. It was then I learned Lincoln used the N word and toyed with sending the freed slaves back to Africa, specifically Liberia. But that is a vastly incomplete portrait of the man. Lincoln was a giant. He rose above the prejudices of his time and at the time of his martyrdom he was a full believer in the cause of the freedman.