The biggest problem with the teaching of history in our schools is that the textbooks are so sanitized, bland and boring that most students don't remember anything from them after they graduate from high school.

How many recent hight school graduates can answer these simple American history questions:

- Why can Eli Whitney be considered one of the people who caused the Civil War?

- Which group of people got rich during the California gold rush?

- What was the main goal of the America First Committee in the early 1940s? Which famous person served as their spokesman?

- What was the Marshall Plan? Why was it implemented?

- What is a "red scare"?

- Why did Richard Nixon resign the presidency?