What do you think is the most controversial bit of revisionist history?

Anything to do with the Palestinians.

The fact that Pepsi, was, in fact, the choice of a new generation.

Dick Cheney’s ongoing attempt to reposition the Bush presidency, and more importantly his vice-presidency as a crucial nation-saving act of beneficence rather than a dystopian journey into the land of Big Brother.

The big fat lie that Reagan was a good president. He left the country with a huge deficit, low approval ratings, he ignored the AIDS crisis and wasted billions on Star Wars. Nancy Reagan and the Republican propoganda machine really turned history on it’s head.

Are we all that stupid and/or forgetful?

I agree with @tinyfaery.

Another one would be the genocide of the Native Americans by the US government. I knew nothing about this until college, through independent study, which is a goddamned shame.

Yes @tinyfaery gets a GA. Why that homophobic, lying, belligerent, demented piece of shit Reagan has any honor left in this country is beyond me.

What tinyfaery said..

Nader could have been President while the cold war ended.

Most is difficult for me to judge, but the thesis of 1491 is pretty flipping eye opening and contrary to what probably 99% of us learn in American History and perhaps the histories of the Americas.

True or not, many widespread “conspiracy” beliefs also hit the high water mark, IMO, especially those that revolve around events that preceed the information age.

@kevbo Great link!

Reagan causing the break-up of the Soviet Union.
I agree with tinyfairie. Reagan should have been impeached. He wasn’t the great American patriot the Right portray him to be.

Just look at a history book in Saudi Arabian schools.

I don’t suppose that this counts but I found it fascinating that overnight Michael Jackson went from social outcast to revered saint.