> “...but is simply “a more rigorous reflection of the current state of knowledge and practice in our discipline.” “
In other words academics get bored with the ‘old stuff’ and have to get creative to keep themselves feeling somehow relevant.
The Founding Visionaries and their impact mark the single most important seminal event in history after the resurrection of Jesus. Yet certain historians can’t be bothered to be satisfied with presenting these visionaries to new generations of Americans as an educational honor and duty, rather they must feed their own egos first with a subjective, jaundiced and uncalled for reordering of priorities.
I descend from a Mohican Indian Princess and I say ‘Indian’ knowing full well that PC dictates ‘Native American’ even though Indian organizations refer to themselves as Indian (http://www.ncai.org/tribal-directory/tribal-organizations) and knowing full well that the term ‘Indian’ was historical error in reference to peoples of the New World described by those that followed Columbus thinking he had landed in India.
But although I descend from Mohican people I also descend from Robert the Bruce as well as Irish settlers to the eastern seaboard before there was a United States.
So I am an American in every sense of the word ‘American’ which derives from Amerigo Vespucci.
If I want to learn more about Native American history, and I do spend time in its study, and if I was attending a school, then I would expect to first learn classical history including Christian history and Western Civilization followed by American History followed by focused studies in Native American History, in that order. Only then would I understand the importance of the Founding Visionaries to the World at large.
Educated people everywhere all over the globe understand the enormous impact of the visions of the Founders of the United States. It is lunacy to demote these Founders. Their impact and relevance goes far beyond the Continent of North America, their visions go to the core of all human behavior and its governance.
Hear! Hear!
How many noticed when they changed BC to BCE and AD to ACE?