Texas Textbooks: Is America ‘Exceptional’?

Clashes among members of the Texas Board of Education over the content of students' textbooks have come, in part, to focus on a once obscure intellectual concept -- "American exceptionalism" -- that has now seen the president of the United States weigh in. Although definitions in intellectual debates can be tricky, the concept of "American exceptionalism" may be defined as the notion that the United States, by ... read more