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To: Tax-chick
Her history books are good too.

Unlike a number of authors she was not afraid to say, "we don't know but this is our best guess with the current evidence."

27 posted on 01/17/2018 4:36:34 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I think that’s an important point, and one of the things I like about Professor Brier. He talks about how interpretations have changed over two centuries, and reminds the reader or listener that what we now think is accurate is always subject to new evidence.


29 posted on 01/17/2018 4:39:41 PM PST by Tax-chick ("It's the end of the world as we know it ... if the sky is falling, I don't want to be below it.")
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