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To: Rockingham

Sounds to me like you would do well to watch Founders Friday and lean a bit about history if you think he is using a movie to back up his statments, you might lean he is using original documents to back up his statements and much of what HE is teaching from those documents has been scrubbed from your school text books... but there is plenty of American Revolution truth out there if a person missed it in school that you don’t need a movie to teach it’’s version,


98 posted on 08/28/2010 7:40:03 PM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn
I have read a very great deal of history over the years and I do watch Beck. History, properly understood, is a grand mosaic. The whole of it must be kept in mind and not just the individual pieces of which it is composed.

In recent years, historians have turned renewed attention to the profound radicalism of the American Revolution. Not only did colonists from Europe create a distinct new society, but they rebelled and won a hard fight for the right reasons. They then crafted a Constitution that is as close to fulfillment of the best of the Enlightenment as has ever been realized.

Contrary to what you seem to assume, there are excellent professional historians who are conservative and who specialize in that era. Forrest McDonald is the most prominent, but there are numerous others.

102 posted on 08/28/2010 8:53:14 PM PDT by Rockingham
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