[Pharmboy]

History *ping*

[jocon307]

I did research there when I was in college, they couldn't have been nicer or more helpful to me. I was just a 19 y.o. undergrad, but they made me feel like I was a great scholar. And the stuff I looked at really helped me.

[NYC GOP Chick]

Thanks!

[firebrand]

Any museum exhibit can be slanted one way or the other.

When I was in Oregon, the federally controlled Lewis & Clark museum said Thomas Jefferson was not interested in commerce but only want the two explorers to explore for exploring's sake. At a privately funded museum along the Columbia River, there was a giant poster of an actual quote from Jefferson saying just the opposite.

Even with Audubon, one can paint him as the first environmentalist or as someone who enjoyed enormous freedom compared with what we have today.