“Global Insights-People And Culture (Glencoe, 1988, 1994), written by James Hantula et al.: “An area of Middle Eastern land, surrounded by Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, used to be called Palestine, and Arabs and Jews lived there.” The name Palestine was given to an area that existed before Syria, Saudi Arabia or Lebanon existed. In 1921, Britain severed nearly four-fifths of Palestine to create Transjordan (later Jordan).”  jewishvirtuallibrary.org

1. Our Virginia: Past and Present says The War of Independence began in 1776 when it actually began in 1775. cnn.com
2. In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, but his discovery of the New World was just a coincidence. Columbus didn’t even know the earth was round even though most educated people during that time period did have that knowledge. But in Columbus by Laurence Bergreen, the real story is that Columbus went out in search of a passage to India and China and ended up in America. huffingtonpost.com
3. Our Virginia: Past and Present says there was a Battle of Richmond in the Civil War, when in actuality, there’s no such thing. cnn.com
4. Our Virginia: Past and Present states America joined World War I in 1916 when we actually joined the fight in 1917. washingtonmonthly.com

• Abner Doubleday: A Civil War Biography sets the record straight that Abner Doubleday did not in fact invent baseball. He is credited for his leadership during the battles of Ft. Sumter and Gettysburg. Alexander Cartwright is the true founder of America’s favorite pastime. huffingtonpost.com

1. Our Virginia: Past and Present listed 12 states that joined the Confederacy when there was actually only 11 that joined. washingtonmonthly.com
2. From the same textbook found to be going out in Texas schools, it stated that Moses influenced the Founding Fathers and slavery is not mentioned as one of the key contributors to the Civil War. usatoday.com
3. Many textbooks create a flashback to Paul Revere’s night ride saying he rode alone on the night of April 18 shouting, “the British are coming!” Most of the textbooks fail to say Paul was actually accompanied by over 60 men and women, which is told in Paul Revere’s Ride by David Hackett Fischer. historynewsnetwork.org
4. A lot of people have a good idea of what Cleopatra was like, but in fact, most textbooks have it wrong. Cleopatra wasn’t even fully Egyptian, and although she did have children with Caesar and Mark Antony, she was much more than that. According to Stacy Schiff’s Cleopatra, she was a “calculated leader whose strategic relationships forged a new empire.”