The History of the LABOR Movement is being erased from our nation's History Books.

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33. It's not just labor that's been erased

A few years ago, as an extension of researching Bush family history, I started looking into various right-wing figures of the late 30s and early 40s, and I found that there were a lot of apologists for them online and very few websites offering left-wing assessments -- either from the period or more currently.

I finally concluded that the same funding sources and organizations that make sure that the Heritage Foundation's viewpoints are widely distributed, while progressive alternatives are barely visible, were doing their best to maintain a right-wing take on American history.

The copyright laws haven't helped either. The crucial books of that period are available only if someone has found it worth keeping them in print. This means that left-wind works have generally vanished. There's a lot of good work that could be done digging stuff out and putting it on line, if anybody cared.