Presidential historian and best-selling author Doris Kearns Goodwin has a knack for bringing her History miniseries to air when they're most acutely needed. Her latest, the seven-and-a-half hour "Abraham Lincoln," arrives on basic cable in the midst of a(nother) ridiculous push in multiple states to ban books and legislate "uncomfortable" historical accounts out of our educational system.
This would effectively erase, rewrite or downplay the most significant contributions by figures who aren't white, straight or Christian from school texts even more than they already have been. And this bolsters the efforts to cement structural inequality in place.
