The Best Way to Learn the History of the United States
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HISTORY IS NOT EASY TO GET A HANDLE ON
From a practical standpoint history can not be taught in school. Textbook authors and teachers twist and distort facts, offer opinion as truth and base much of their opinion on hindsight seen through p.c. glasses.
Unfortunately there is no practical way to teach history in schools - a general biased, and sometimes factually flawed over view is the best we can hope for. The alternative - research, or at the least, the need to read several books dealing with each event or period - would be far too time consuming.
In my second year of college I was required to take "History of the United States - Civil War Through Current Times". Between the first and second class I read the entire text and and found more than 70 errors; wrong dates, opinion disguised as fact, conclusions wrongly drawn - all thoroughly seasoned with p.c. judgments and 20-20 hindsight.
I gave the professor a paper (referenced and footnoted) explaining the problems. A week later I was called to his office and told that it wouldn't be possible to hand out a correction sheet to the class - the mistakes and personal opinion were to be taught as fact (No, his name wasn't Ward Churchill).
I told him he should change the course title to a "Course in Historical Philosophy Based Upon Personal Opinion - As Seen Through Politically Correct Hindsight". I got an A, but was banished to the library for the remainder of the course.
Over the years more than one professor "Gulaged" me to the library - Just wish the internet existed then - lugging all those books around was hard work.
