(David Barton’s books were always on hand in the library and bookstore to help you fill in the rest.) For instance, I can’t recall if the textbooks ever explicitly claimed men like Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were orthodox Christians, but they did make sure that the more pious statements from those men were highlighted and memorized. Recognizing and discerning a Christian’s political responsibility depends on getting the history right, so the history must be massaged a little. On the treatment of America, I don’t have a strong recollection of many of the details, but broadly speaking I can recall that the curriculum more or less promoted the typical post-war evangelical history of America: America is an exceptional country with a providential founding, and Christians in America have certain political responsibilities that arise from this fact.
A Beka Book is widely used by fundamentalist homeschoolers and Christian schools around the world, and is infamous primarily because its science textbooks reject evolution and its civics textbooks embrace America. As a child, I attended Pensacola Christian Academy, the flagship school of the notorious A Beka Book curriculum.
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