By Robert Maranto, College of Arkansas We can not choose the politics out of public colleges, because choices about what to educate and what to go away out are inherently political. Social-studies curricula appear the most political of all, because they deficiency the precision of math and combine history with heritage. Though frequently wedded together, record and heritage vary. Like all tribes, the people of the United States have a shared heritage, the legends inspiring us to proceed our nation. In contrast, the subject of background is a Western invention searching for to portray what happened, warts and all. Heritage is Mason Weems’s myth that youthful George Washington confessed to…