We should tell real American adventure stories to teach our boys about heroes

My 13-year-old son’s "social studies" textbooks appear to be written by committees whose chief concern is to dull boys’ minds in order to make them open to indoctrination by politically correct dictum. Indeed, the very term "social studies" was promulgated by a Progressive Era committee. "The social studies are understood to be those whose subject matter relate to the organization and development of human society, and to man as a member of social groups," decided the National Education Associati