Actually stone is not insane. He does do the most daring thing and that is to dare people to question what they thought they new to be facts. Both sides and a few in between have twisted the facts of history to the point that it bares little resemblance to reality when it hit’s the classroom.
Pick any section of history. Pick any piece you like. I promise that what you learned in Kindergarten through grad school is biased and wrong. When we get to argue about is what direction did the bias take.
Starting with the Civil war as the best example of bias reporting and creative history you will likely ever see. A war over taxes, states rights and had absolutely nothing to do with slavery. Not until they needed an emotional excuse to justify their butchery on the battlefield did slavery even get mentioned.
Civil war II is one the way. Taxes, states rights and some excuse yet to be determined.
*Sigh* You certainly are one to talk about bias and insanity.
It wasn't that the Northern states went to war to free the slaves. It was that the Southern slave states feared a threat to their system and declared themselves to be outside of the union, forming their own nation.
Northerners didn't believe in unilateral secession and didn't recognize the secession resolutions or the Confederacy. Southerners fired on a US fort. And the war started.
It very much did have a lot to do with slavery. Without slavery there wouldn't have been widespread panic in the slave states when Lincoln was elected. Without slavery there wouldn't have been secession and war in 1860.