How ‘Schoolhouse Rock!’ Sometimes Taught an Entire Generation History Completely Wrong

At least the songs were catchy

Paul Combs
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6 min readMar 29, 2022
Image: Scholastic Rock, Inc./ABC

If you were a kid in America in the 1970s and 1980s, one of the staples of your Saturday morning cartoon viewing was Schoolhouse Rock! Starting in 1973, the animated musical series successfully snuck in educational programming by taking things like grammar (with…

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Paul Combs
Perceive More!

Writer, bookseller, would-be roadie for the E Street Band. My ultimate goal is to make books as popular in Texas as high school football...it may take a while.