My dad gave me the hgih school history book he used before he went to WWII. Christianity all through it, non-Western "civilizations" were clearly inferior, evil men were evil, not just misunderstood. Man, for that kind of clarity today!
My favorite part of social studies in junior high were these films shown in class. Even though Cronkite was the host there was no spin!
From 1953 to 1957, Cronkite hosted the CBS program You Are There, which reenacted historical events, using the format of a news report. His famous last line for these programs was: “What sort of day was it? A day like all days, filled with those events that alter and illuminate our times... and you were there.”
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