Anonymous good-willers in Manitoba and Minnesota put up $1,000 as a prize for an "impartial" U.S.-Canadian history textbook. Object: to teach elementary and high-school students on both sides of the border the same versions of the same events, thus promote Canadian-U.S. understanding.
The baldest differences in current U.S. and Canadian textbooks are in accounts of the War of 1812:
> To U.S. children, one of the high spots of that war is the burning of Washington. U.S. texts cry "vandalism," tell how British troops "deliberately set fire to the White House, the Capitol and...
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