An examination of the current culture wars being waged on campuses and in schools throughout the United States. Nash, Crabtree, and Dun--all of them academics--were asked by the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop national standards for the study of history in high schools. When they published their study in 1994, however, it aroused a storm of controversy for its left-wing slant and was eventually disavowed by the very agency that had commissioned it.