<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Your understanding of American history likely depends on what textbooks you were handed in school. Unfortunately for today&#8217;s students, textbooks are now driven by politics — and none of them tell the whole story.</span></p>
<p>Take a gander at the major textbook publishers to see how bad it&#8217;s gotten. Pearson Education <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/textbook-bias-is-a-real-problem/">recently launched</a> an initiative called Pride 365, the aim of which is to teach gay pride every day of the year. Houghton Mifflin went all-in on Black Lives Matter, and McGraw Hill has an &#8220;Equity Advisory Board.&#8221;</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, textbook manufacturers that have embraced leftism to this extent are not portraying American history in a positive light. One popular AP U.S. History textbook <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/anti-trump-american-history-textbook-blatantly-biased-critics-say">instructs</a> students that President Donald Trump&#8217;s election was racist. Another <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/textbook-bias-is-a-real-problem/">claims</a> that the American dream is a &#8220;myth&#8221; and says the United States is one of the most unequal countries in the world.</p>
<p>Pick up a high school history textbook at random, and you&#8217;ll find some version of the same narrative: the country was founded by slave owners and built on stolen Indian land. Democrat savior Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved America from Republican boogeyman Herbert Hoover&#8217;s Great Depression with his New Deal.</p>
<p>With textbooks like these, it&#8217;s no wonder American children are quick to be ashamed of their country and accept leftist ideas and Democratic policies as inherently good and right. As long as these views dominate the American mainstream, Americans will think it&#8217;s wrong to love their country and its history.</p>
<p>Enter Matt Walsh.</p>
<p>Beginning this year, the Daily Wire host has been working to tell the American story in his groundbreaking <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/real-history-with-matt-walsh">series</a>, &#8220;Real History With Matt Walsh.&#8221; Walsh doesn&#8217;t shy away from complicated chapters in American history — the series has thus far tackled <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/rhs-260118?elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel">slavery</a>, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/rhs-260322-civil-war-sub?elementPosition=2&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel">Civil War</a>, and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/rhs-260222?elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+Show+Episodes+Carousel">American Indians</a> — but lets the facts speak for themselves. The goal is not to make viewers ashamed of the United States, but to better understand what really happened.</p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">His latest installment, out now exclusively on DailyWire+, tackles the history of the Civil Rights movement. It’s been presented as one of the most successful movements in American history, reversing decades of racism against black Americans and laying the groundwork for racial equality.</span></p>
<p><strong><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/real-history-ep-4-civil-rights-pt1?contentProgram=Real%20History%20with%20Matt%20Walsh&amp;contentType=ShowEpisode&amp;elementPosition=2&amp;location=Home%20Tab&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Home%20Featured%20Carousel">WATCH: THE REAL HISTORY OF CIVIL RIGHTS</a></strong></p>
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<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But is any of that true? Or did the Civil Rights movement actually set the country on the wrong track? Was America the racial hellscape we were taught it was before the country passed the Civil Rights Act, or was it actually better than it is today? </span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Take Martin Luther King Jr. He&#8217;s now one of the most famous figures in American history, with a federal holiday dedicated to honoring the assassinated activist. He won the Nobel Peace Prize. Is MLK really who we think he is? Was the movement he led actually about non-violence?</span></p>
<p>&#8220;He had a dream — just not the dream you thought it was,&#8221; Walsh says in a trailer for the episode. &#8220;Were his true aims a color-blind society, or something far more radical? Who bankrolled him? What unfolded behind the scenes in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963? Was civil disobedience actually peaceful?&#8221;</p>
<p>Walsh notes that he was unable to play a clip from King&#8217;s famous &#8220;I Have A Dream&#8221; speech because King&#8217;s estate has a habit of suing news outlets that play clips from the speech.</p>
<p>&#8220;What they&#8217;re doing makes it very difficult to judge Martin Luther King Jr. not by the color of his skin, but by the content of his character,&#8221; Walsh says.</p>
<p>&#8220;King&#8217;s movement fundamentally transformed our country and our system of government,&#8221; he adds. &#8220;These questions demand answers, and as Americans we are entitled to a full accounting of King&#8217;s movement.&#8221;</p>
<p>Walsh sets out to answer those questions. Watch Part I of &#8220;A New Constitution&#8221; now, exclusively on DailyWire+.</p>
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