On Wednesday’s Amanpour & Co., PBS again pushed the left’s false narrative that the Republican Party was trying to ban and erase slavery from American history classes. This time Walter Isaacson tapped former Harvard University president Drew Gilpin Faust to be the purported expert for their smear campaign.

As Faust appeared to promote her book, Necessary Trouble and spoke about her history of supporting the historic Civil Rights Movement, Isaacson brought up the issue of the teaching of history and suggested that conservatives want to hide the truth about the slavery era from children. He posed:

Here’s another sentence from your book. “Nearly a century after Appomattox, Virginia was still breathing the air of war and defeat.” And it really ties into when you were growing up — when I was growing up, we had Lee Circle. You had monuments of Robert E. Lee. It was all Robert E. Lee and that “lost cause.” What do you say now when people are trying to change the way we teach history back to almost this notion of the “lost cause”? We’re seeing all sorts of history curriculums being attacked.