Posted on 10/07/2022 10:22:28 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
Out here, the history teachers are often the coaches--subject experts in physical education and not so much history.
In 1748, Charles De Montesquieu in his “The Spirit of the Laws” wrote that the first purpose of education in a republic is to teach love of country.
Being self-governed, an unloved/hated republic is doomed.
I’d be glad for an honest curriculum of US History, even if solely focused on marginalized peoples. Only, aside from being sad, it’d have little to do with the actual historical outcomes. Sorry, but marginalized people by definition don’t much impact history. They might, but only if/when they are no longer marginalized.
For example, we could study 7th century BC Neo-Babylonian slave culture and end up knowing nothing more about that ancient world than that the captives were treated like shit, especially the conquered Assyians in Nineveh, which was removed from the map. However, if I were to tie that in to larger historical trends, I might even learn that the Babylonian Captivity of jews had an incredible impact on larger history.
Or, I could study Michael Jordan — and what historical agencies were behind his success and historical impacts. That’d be a far different study from the life of slaves on Madison’s Montpelier, which seems to be an obsession of its current curators, and teaches nothing larger than their particular condition.
These leftist dudes are just stupid.
Woody Hayes taught American History at Ohio State when he was the head football coach, because he was passionate about the subject. And he was very conservative.
“Enslaved people built our young nation and made possible an economy that would throw off the control of the most powerful country then on earth, Great Britain. “
Made possible an economy? Are there impossible economies?
“You didn’t build that” - Obama and Elizabeth Warren who just confiscated other people’s money.
He also tried to instill a sense of history in his players, as when he took the team to see the play Give 'em Hell, Harry, which is about the life of President Harry Truman.
Yep.
Silly wabbit!
Everyone knows the WINNERS write the history!
Before he died, General Lee said that had he known what the government would be teaching his grandchildren about the war, he never would have surrendered at Appomattox.
Surrender or not, the government would still ‘teach’ the same stuff.
A long, long time ago, my grandfather bought for me a set of books called, “the Harvard classics”, because I was an avid bookworm. I still have most of them. One of the best sources of American History was “Original American historical documehnts”, a collection of papers and letters as written hundreds of years ago. As a teen, my family was transferred from VA to PA, where I discovered history was a fiction.
Primary Source Documents Pertaining to Early American History
https://constitution.org/1-History/primarysources/primarysources.html
Nice link. Thanks. The list aligns with my reading preferences: books that are at least 100 years old and still relevant; coupled with a length of at least 500 pages (anything less can’t be thorough).
I think that exposure early on was key to my skepticism on accepting what others, (media, politicians, teachers) told me the fact were. The facts are SELDOM what other people tell you they are. This is how I know for a fact, that the Civil War was not about slavery.
“the Civil War was not about slavery”
I also picked up on that in my youth. Based upon conversations that I’ve had with the bunches of “southerners” that I bumped into here and there in my travels, they were also of the opinion that it was about states rights.
Matter of fact, they didn’t refer to it as the “Civi War”, rather, they used the term “War of Secession”.
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