Let's just say that Founding Fathers created constitution to favor white male slave owners :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Zinn#Socialism

Also in my Honors History class we were told that we started Vietnam war, just like Roosevelt knew about Japanese planning Pearl Harbor and let it happen so he could force America to participate in the war.

That was all in NYC high school, I don't think schools in Boston differ much from NYC.