No history of the Texas Textbook Wars (hereafter TTW) would be complete without acknowledging the contributions of the late Mel Gabler and his wife Norma, the Godfather and Godmother of textbook censorship in Texas.

The Gablers began critiquing textbooks in 1961 after they took exception to the "quality" of their son's history and social science texts. They founded Educational Research Analysts, an official-sounding organization from which they waged their battles for the next 40+ years. The ERA's motto is "We review public school textbooks from a conservative, Christian perspective. We can show you what's wrong and how to fix it."

More after the jump.