The Texas Board of Education's conservative members would like to exercise their power to distort history.  As the one of the largest buyers of textbooks in the country, the board wants to change and re-write the history books. Smaller states who have no textbook buying power would essentially have to read and study the new Texas version of history.

Conservative Board of Education argues that they are correcting a long-standing liberal bias in education. Read the running history of this very interesting "culture war" here and if you want details, read the exact changes here.

Here is how they are trying to stick it to us: One of the most controversial changes is to deny the slave trade. The Texas Board of Education wants to refer to the slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade".

They are basically saying that slavery is and will always be just simply good old fashion capitalism.

Here are some other changes that take place:

1.    The board wants to diminish Thomas Jefferson's role in history because of his belief in the separation of church and state. Students are required to learn that America's founding documents were influenced by various intellectual traditions, "especially biblical law," and principles laid down by Moses. From the tenor of the changes, the board wants to build the foundation for a fundamentalist Christian theocracy.

2.    The board wants to drop references to a landmark court case that barred schools from segregating Mexican American students. Joseph McCarthy's campaign against suspected communists is also to be toned down.

3.    The amendments also places the United Nations in a critical light, with students asked to evaluate whether the UN and its committees undermine US sovereignty - a tune for conservatives. Students would be required to learn about the "unintended consequences" of Title IX, affirmative action, and the Great Society, and would need to study conservative icons like Phyllis Schlafly, the Heritage Foundation, and the Moral Majority.

4.    The transcripts of the board discussions also stated that they specifically did not want to include President George W. Bush's controversial 2000 election outcome nor the election of the first African American President Barack Obama. Yet, the board wants to add positive references to the Moral Majority, the National Rifle Association and the GOP's Contract with America.

But there is good news for Texas more than 1,200 historians and college faculty members from across the nation have signed a petition calling the standards academically shoddy.

The Texas Board of Education will be voting this week and all of the changes are expected to pass.

We've also included Texas Tribune's video for this story.