” A novel has more than one chapter.”
While I’m not the first one to tackle this problem, teaching history to my daughter has been given to me.
I suppose the best I can do is teach her “This source says this, but this source says this”. All conflicts have at least two sides.
With our upcoming Civil War, I’ll have to explain to her why daddy’s parents thought one thing, and mommy’s parents thought another.. and why people may die because of what is in the middle.
With a second US civil war, the same result. The right-wing WILL win. The victors will write the history, and in 100 years someone will tell their kids “Yeah.. but what history doesn’t tell you is that President Trump was illegitimate, beat women and was a russian spy”.
History is something to be very, very careful with. Before learning history we should all learn how to learn history.
Have her read both Harry Jaffa and Thomas DiLorenzo.