{"id":633,"date":"2010-01-15T23:54:18","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T04:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delicious.com\/url\/912c75d70aa5bb0f287467faeaac932e#tomathon"},"modified":"2010-01-27T14:08:04","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T19:08:04","slug":"greg-dunkel-haitian-history-what-u-s-textbooks-don%e2%80%99t-tell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/greg-dunkel-haitian-history-what-u-s-textbooks-don%e2%80%99t-tell\/","title":{"rendered":"Greg Dunkel. Haitian History: What U.S. textbooks don\u2019t tell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;This Week in Haiti,&quot; Haiti Progres, 17\u201323 September 2003. A two-part article looks at high-school textbooks in the U.S. to show why so may Americans are so ignorant about Haiti and how this limited knowledge has been distorted, muffled and hidden behind a veil of silence.  Part of the large &quot;World History Archives&quot; fair use and free &quot;Haiti Archives&quot; documents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&quot;This Week in Haiti,&quot; Haiti Progres, 17\u201323 September 2003. A two-part article looks at high-school textbooks in the U.S. to show why so may Americans are so ignorant about Haiti and how this limited knowledge has been distorted, muffled and hidden behind a veil of silence.  Part of the large &quot;World History Archives&quot; fair use and free &quot;Haiti Archives&quot; documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2010\/01\/greg-dunkel-haitian-history-what-u-s-textbooks-don%e2%80%99t-tell\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":279,"url":"http:\/\/www.tomathon.com\/mphp\/2009\/07\/liberia-from-america-no-zion-in-babylon\/","url_meta":{"origin":633,"position":0},"title":"Liberia from America: No Zion in Babylon","date":"July 9, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf may be barred from politics for her sketchy past: consider this a cautionary tale to those calling Liberia \"Black America's Israel\". 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