Kenneth Davis

Celebrating the Civil War may not sound like a joyful party, and its far from politically correct. Yet some groups in the South are planning to mark the 150th anniversary of the Confederacy’s secession from the United States by doing exactly that.

We talk with Mark Oglesby, a high school history teacher, about some important, yet unknown, facts from U.S. history that he believes all his students ? and all Americans ? should be armed with. Author Kenneth Davis also joins in.

A textbook distributed to Virginia’s fourth graders states that African Americans served in the Confederate Army by the thousands. We talk about where this claim comes from and some books that might do a better job of educating our children.