Thanks to an overriding anti-American bias dominating the ivory towers of academia, a new generation of Americans is learning a retouched, refigured, and at times completely fabricated history of their country.  History has become more about advancing ideology than an accurate recounting of past events.

The late Marxist storyteller Howard Zinn epitomized this type of historical malpractice in his thoroughly discredited magnum opus, A People's History of the United States.  Zinn himself admitted, "I wanted my writing of history and my teaching of history to be a part of social struggle...so that kind of attitude towards history, history itself as a political act, has always informed my writing and my teaching."  Yet despite this admission of flagrant bias, many colleges and universities - as well as high schools - across America require Zinn's pseudo-history as a prerequisite for graduation.

Meanwhile, Hollywood and the entertainment community do their part to amplify Zinn's work to the rest of the culture.  In 2009, a team of Hollywood liberal activists transformed A People's History into a stage play entitled The People Speak.  The Los Angeles Times summarized its message as providing a reminder of "this country's collective history of oppression."  To their great shame, The History Channel lowered their standards for accuracy and truthfulness and aired The People Speak.

The American Story, then, stands in direct contrast to this type of revisionism.  It is an answer to the cultural activism of those who see the events of the past as mere objects to be manipulated, changed, and rewritten so as to provide a catalyst for social change.  It is a prudent and yet remarkably powerful retelling of real American history - as in, the events that actually took place over the course of the last 400 years.

The American Story was not written by Marxist intellectuals, it was written by the American people.  Replete with tragedies and extraordinary triumphs, this is their spectacularly proud journey as history's greatest civilization.  Hollywood nor The History Channel have come calling to publicize or promote the Story...which in the end, may be its best commendation of all.