History for most Americans only starts on 7 December 1941. Beyond that...it’s a hopeless thing. Most of the real history of the 1920s and 1930s....are captured on three pages of text, and people have no grasp of period.
I was reading over Lincoln’s mother, her period in North Carolina, and the “deal” to get her hooked to Tom Lincoln. At the time when the arrangement was being worked...she was thirteen years old, and generally felt to already be pregnant.
You can find dozens of marriages along the Oregon Trail where some fourteen year old teen is married by the end of the eight-month trip to some kid in another wagon.
“History for most Americans only starts on 7 December 1941.”
And history for most Japanese only starts on August 6, 1945.
Back on topic: the LDS church’s latest admission about their randy founder is deck chairs on the Titanic, in my opinion.
Modernity is the worst enemy of those who seek to falsify the past, as modern technology as applied to information management, DNA microbiology, and even archaeology are now being brought to bear against the long-accepted claims made by the LDS.
What could be dreamed up or falsified by a 19th century charlatan & snake oil salesman in his day, primitive in comparison to today, is now being subjected to withering scrutiny.
For example, the Mormon teaching that today’s American Indians are descended from Hebraic “Lamanites” who destroyed the “white & delightsome Nephites”, has been quietly set aside by the General Authorities in Salt Lake City.
The Mormon dam of misinformation is leaking badly & could burst at any time.