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Matt Walsh has set out to do what too few in the media dare: tell the fuller truth about American history instead of bowing to the woke, shame-first version schools have been selling for years. He joined Megyn Kelly to explain why he launched Real History with Matt Walsh — a project that promises to challenge the prevailing narratives and push back against textbooks that reduce complex events to one-sided moral condemnations.
Real History bills itself as a corrective to decades of revisionist teaching, and it officially premiered this month as a DailyWire+ series, with trailers and episodes laying out its mission to reexamine stories Americans were told to reject. The series doesn’t apologize for patriotism; it promises context — and context is exactly what the leftist curriculum often omits.
Walsh told Kelly he’s digging into the history of slavery with an eye toward facts many in the education establishment ignore, such as the global nature of the slave trade and the uncomfortable truths that don’t fit neatly into the victim-oppressor soundbite. That kind of historical honesty is political poison to the academic left, which prefers grievance as a civic religion rather than robust, factual debate.
Americans deserve history that makes them think, not history that makes them grovel. For too long, our children have been fed sanitized myths or one-note condemnations that erase context, credit, and the complexities that produced modern liberty. Challenging that monoculture is not an attack on truth; it is an attempt to restore it.
Part of the series’ boldness is placing American slavery in the wider context of human history — including the global slave trade — so viewers can understand scale, causes, and consequences instead of accepting a perpetual national guilt trip. That broader frame doesn’t excuse evil; it helps us learn how to prevent it in the future and how to recognize that progress matters.
Walsh is also turning his eye to Native American history, another area where caricature and omission have too often replaced careful scholarship. Conservatives should welcome a sober reckoning with the past that respects the dignity of all peoples while refusing to weaponize history for political scoring.
This fight over the schoolbook narrative is not academic quibbling; it’s about whether we raise citizens who know the full story and can be proud of the republic’s achievements without denying its failures. Matt Walsh’s series is a welcome intervention — unapologetic, fact-driven, and unafraid to challenge the self-righteous platitudes of the cultural elite. Patriots who love truth and love this country should pay attention.
