Inventors’ credits and cultural chauvinism

A student reminded me of this old School House Rock song. I’m sure I haven’t heard it since I was a kid, when it was still on Saturday morning broadcast TV, but it came right back to me! And here I’ve been making fun of other people for being nostalgic. Anyway, watching this now, I see connections to our discussions of national identity, public school curricula, historical revisionism, and more. I suspect a remake today would follow a rather different script. Still makes me sort of nostalgic, though.