How has todays political correctness effected our telling (and learning) of history, especially recent history? Is it for the good or for the bad? whats your opinion?

It has been for the bad.  Case in point: it's politically correct nowadays to say something like "all humans are at war" rather than "mankind is at war" or "man is at war".  Most people probably wouldn't even dare to say the latter.  However, if we read works of classical literature, we'd see the use of "man" referring to all people, not "man and woman" or something else.  What do students think when they read these classical works?  Do they think our ancestors were somehow evil or barbaric because of this?  I think modern political correctness may cause people to think less of past ages, when in fact we should think less of our current age - or at least ways of "enlightened" thinking that pop up out of the blue and merely sound good for the moment.

I would imagine that modern scholars get more notice, notoriety, tenure, or book deals when they assert novel/scandalous yet plausible motives or reasons to historical events or people that the rest of us thought was relatively settled.  You're not going to hear all that much from academic types who assert standard historical fare because it lacks the “oooooh” factor.  Give 'em a good scandal, however, and people take notice. Now watch as Donnie places into his thesis the part where Jonathan Edwards hid a giant gold statue of Zeus right underneath where the U.S. Capitol building is now located...

That's interesting, great news.  Seems like it's a high risk-reward area for investors.  On one hand, there is a lot of potential in that market, probably much of it untapped; on the other hand, security precautions spell out the big concern in that country which makes investment uneasy.  Notice they use positive reference to economic “trickle down” that had been scoffed at during the Reagan era, right?