It's utter nonsense that hasn't corrected its widely documented errors and omissions. Those "ahistorical bits" include a claim that preservation of slavery was a motivator of the American Revolution. And it is surely odd that an account of American race relations somehow neglects to mention the Civil War.
The book shouldn't be censored, but it isn't "history" any more than intelligent design is "science".
I suppose a public library maybe should have it, but it belongs on a shelf with the "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the works of Lysenko and the tracts of the Flat Earth Society.
It doesn't belong within a hundred yards of a school.
> It's utter nonsense that hasn't corrected its widely documented errors and omissions.
This goes far beyond all but the most partisan criticism I've read about the project, and even partisans are mad about the project issuing "silent" corrections without notice so your understanding may be outdated. Regardless, I think that some nuance is warranted here and it sounds like the librarians at BPL agree.
The book shouldn't be censored, but it isn't "history" any more than intelligent design is "science".
I suppose a public library maybe should have it, but it belongs on a shelf with the "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", the works of Lysenko and the tracts of the Flat Earth Society.
It doesn't belong within a hundred yards of a school.