It's possible that history might become a more popular subject if some of the details were added. The deletion of God from the Pilgrims' saga, though, is part of another story, one from our own time having to do with the way America is choosing to delete the importance of religion from its history. Interestingly, his opponent, Akhil Reed Amar of Yale Law School, agreed with him about Thanksgiving. Americans used to make fun of the Soviet Union's commissars, who periodically rewrote the nation's history books to suit current political needs. But in America today, the political and cultural elites don't have to decree that the record of the past shall be changed.
People do it on their own.
David Boldt is an editorial writer for The Philadelphia Inquirer.