Paralyzed by the notion that teaching about Communism might make some students Communists, and frightened by cold war controversy, most U.S. high schools evaded the subject for a decade after World War II. Now, the cultural lag having elapsed and Khrushchev having toned down Communist belligerence, schools are beginning to see the task as a scholarly opportunity for their history and social studies departments.
The best schools—for example, Andover and Exeter—are doing all possible to weave facts about Communism into regular history courses; a gold mine of their ideas is David Mallery's...
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