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Mon Nov-29-04 07:31 PM
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| 4. A good book for this kind of stuff |
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everthing Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen All kinds of interesting stuff in there. He analyzes several American History textbooks and breaks down and discusses much of the stuff that they get wrong. Tons of factoids.  |
| -Stuff you were never taught in high school American History courses |
jpgray |
Nov-29-04 12:51 PM |
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Geo. Washington didn't free his slaves per law in Philadelphia. |
JohnOneillsMemory |
Nov-29-04 01:12 PM |
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George Washington ALSO bought his first election. |
Spider Jerusalem |
Nov-30-04 02:31 AM |
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that seems to have been a common event...... |
Historic NY |
Feb-06-05 02:43 AM |
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Yup. Tis true. And there's more . . . |
TaleWgnDg |
Aug-22-05 03:38 AM |
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Thanks for the recommendation. |
Sequoia |
Sep-25-07 12:20 PM |
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IIRC he and Jefferson both grew marijuana! nt |
wildbilln864 |
Apr-04-09 01:58 PM |
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Thank you! |
IA_Seth |
Nov-29-04 03:48 PM |
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Japanese internment camps are usually skipped over. |
SemiCharmedQuark |
Nov-29-04 04:52 PM |
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I taught high school history and had a great |
Yupster |
Feb-20-05 10:10 PM |
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something not covered regarding japanese internment |
chena |
Dec-11-06 06:39 PM |
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And here's the Supreme Court case that legitimized government internment of citizens. |
no_hypocrisy |
Nov-18-08 01:48 PM |
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A good book for this kind of stuff |
deadparrot |
Nov-29-04 07:31 PM |
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Problem is ... |
RoyGBiv |
Nov-29-04 10:31 PM |
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I agree |
WoodrowFan |
Nov-30-04 07:51 AM |
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For example? |
dwckabal |
May-04-05 12:22 AM |
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For example ... |
RoyGBiv |
May-05-05 10:01 PM |
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I agree |
dwckabal |
May-07-05 01:48 AM |
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I didn't miss the point ... |
RoyGBiv |
May-07-05 02:22 AM |
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The text my district adopted IS one of those he mentions. |
LWolf |
Sep-13-08 01:11 PM |
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Howard Zinn and ... |
cannabis_flower |
Aug-27-07 03:08 PM |
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Five Tribes |
RoyGBiv |
Nov-29-04 10:38 PM |
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Never mentioned that citizenship was not extended to |
dflprincess |
Feb-21-05 10:34 PM |
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That's HISTORY now? I remember it happening! |
DemBones DemBones |
Nov-30-04 01:24 AM |
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That the Indians were massacred. One teacher said the most insulting thing |
Bertha Venation |
Nov-30-04 11:15 AM |
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Ah, but see, all that bad stuff.... it happened in the territores... |
WannaJumpMyScooter |
Nov-30-04 11:38 AM |
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Oh, please. Because it happened before the territories were states, |
Bertha Venation |
Nov-30-04 12:12 PM |
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Yeah, and who set the policies for the territories? |
WannaJumpMyScooter |
Dec-01-04 01:31 AM |
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The Sand Creek massacre |
struggle4progress |
Nov-03-05 07:52 PM |
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Pretty much everything important n/t |
Mojambo |
Nov-30-04 12:25 PM |
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The 1927 Columbine Massacre... |
0rganism |
Dec-05-04 01:07 AM |
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Battle of Blair Mountain |
Southpaw Bookworm |
Dec-13-04 02:00 PM |
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Rarely taught labor history. |
intheflow |
Jan-01-05 04:56 AM |
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And the 1914 Ludlow massacre before it. |
struggle4progress |
Nov-03-05 07:55 PM |
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Or the Honea Path massacre (my phrase) after it. |
raccoon |
Nov-08-06 01:33 PM |
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The Mountian Meadows Massacre on September 11, 1957 |
Sequoia |
Sep-25-07 12:37 PM |
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How many of you know today that women were |
DemBones DemBones |
Dec-09-04 08:33 PM |
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What about the "Washer women". |
happyslug |
Dec-10-04 06:37 PM |
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Women surrounded the White House 24/7 for the right to vote. |
intheflow |
Jan-01-05 04:39 AM |
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Hellen Keller: Communist Sympathizer. |
PittPoliSci |
Dec-10-04 01:34 AM |
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How Catholics were treated |
JohnKleeb |
Dec-13-04 04:57 PM |
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And then later on |
Southpaw Bookworm |
Dec-15-04 10:27 AM |
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right |
JohnKleeb |
Dec-15-04 09:56 PM |
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Wasn't Maryland a Catholic refuge at one point? |
Lefty48197 |
Dec-21-04 09:46 PM |
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Yeah I believe so |
JohnKleeb |
Dec-23-04 02:59 AM |
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It was... |
HawkerHurricane |
Jan-26-05 09:41 PM |
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The Carolinas were named after King Charles II! Not George II's wife. |
nealmhughes |
Nov-08-06 04:39 AM |
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And Jews (nt) |
ih8thegop |
Mar-07-05 02:43 PM |
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Interesting note on smallpox in America and use as a weapon |
Jose Diablo |
Dec-18-04 12:44 PM |
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Smallpox is an extremely fragile virus that lives only a short time |
Warpy |
Apr-03-09 10:46 PM |
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More on smallpox and Native Americans...& about smallpox |
uppityperson |
Apr-04-09 01:59 AM |
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I'm not saying they didn't try it |
Warpy |
Apr-04-09 12:24 PM |
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I know. I was interested since I've heard this forever also. So looked for more info |
uppityperson |
Apr-04-09 01:14 PM |
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Right, old myths die hard |
Warpy |
Apr-04-09 01:36 PM |
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Glad you looked those up ... |
RoyGBiv |
Apr-05-09 09:09 PM |
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Never taught anything about gay rights. |
intheflow |
Jan-01-05 04:50 AM |
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US Army Attacks Veterans--1932 |
onager |
Jan-01-05 02:21 PM |
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MacArthur was the real culprit but it contributed to Hoover's downfall |
BrotherBuzz |
Jan-02-05 12:54 AM |
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Which explains how MacAurther... |
HawkerHurricane |
Jan-26-05 09:45 PM |
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The much smarter and more moderate Eisenhower also... |
BrotherBuzz |
Jan-29-05 02:19 AM |
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Yeh, Furley's a real hero. Too bad he ended up... |
Bucky |
May-22-05 12:09 PM |
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LOL, you bad!! |
BrotherBuzz |
May-22-05 05:12 PM |
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The Bonus March? |
Yupster |
Feb-20-05 10:14 PM |
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House Un-American Activity Commission |
BigMcLargehuge |
Jan-01-05 09:27 PM |
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HUAC... |
onager |
Jan-01-05 11:33 PM |
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Italians were treated horrible, |
Baja Margie |
Jan-02-05 12:59 AM |
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The biggest strike I never heard of... |
onager |
Jan-02-05 10:41 PM |
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So many things: |
skippysmom |
Jan-12-05 07:24 PM |
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I don't think even most history teachers know |
Yupster |
Feb-20-05 10:17 PM |
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Black soldiers from the US Army fought under French command during WWI |
BrotherBuzz |
Jan-13-05 01:37 AM |
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Yeah that generation has been gone, btw I didnt know about this, thanks |
JohnKleeb |
Jan-13-05 02:39 PM |
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John Fremont was a murderer and a coward (Kit Carson, too) |
BrotherBuzz |
Jan-13-05 06:46 PM |
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I can remember my reader written in the 1950's for use in Catholic schools |
hedgehog |
Sep-01-06 07:53 PM |
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We were never taught about lynch mobs. |
hedgehog |
Sep-01-06 07:54 PM |
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A good book for you: Bear Flag Rising |
Sequoia |
Sep-25-07 12:39 PM |
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None of my high school teachers had an answer when |
jmm |
Jan-13-05 07:41 PM |
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Columbus was so innocent is finding the Americas..........n/t |
Historic NY |
Feb-06-05 02:40 AM |
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I always had a student tell me that |
Yupster |
Feb-20-05 10:18 PM |
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One of the first times I ever got detention was |
jmm |
Feb-20-05 10:30 PM |
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The US Army's Notorious Incest Trial... |
onager |
Feb-21-05 10:10 PM |
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The enslavement of and murder of American Indians by Christopher Columbus |
Stop_the_War |
Mar-05-05 08:43 PM |
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Conversely, The Indians gave them the clap.... |
BrotherBuzz |
Mar-06-05 04:26 PM |
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The good news is that many schools do teach this now! |
leyton |
May-06-05 03:26 PM |
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Infected Blankets |
RoyGBiv |
May-06-05 03:53 PM |
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The orignal 9/11 |
edwardlindy |
Apr-06-06 04:42 PM |
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The banana war |
edwardlindy |
Apr-06-06 04:49 PM |
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that's wrong on two counts |
Warpy |
Apr-03-09 10:58 PM |
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Almost anything about unions that made sense |
Radical Activist |
Mar-06-05 11:40 PM |
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I read a lot about American history when I was a young, but |
Lydia Leftcoast |
May-02-05 10:22 PM |
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The US "interventions" in Latin America |
dwckabal |
May-04-05 12:41 AM |
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*whew* where to begin? |
libnnc |
May-21-05 11:57 PM |
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The "Southern Kent State" |
MountainLaurel |
May-23-05 04:28 PM |
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Philippine Insurrection |
lenidog |
May-25-05 08:48 PM |
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The business plot to overthrow FDR |
raccoon |
Jul-26-05 10:11 AM |
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amazing! |
Rich Hunt |
Aug-22-05 04:50 PM |
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Absolutely |
gordianot |
Oct-15-05 10:32 PM |
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The book: "The Plot to Seize the White House" is being republished. |
Sequoia |
Apr-11-07 04:28 PM |
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It is? - Do you happen to know who's publishing it?. . . .n/t |
annabanana |
Apr-04-09 06:54 AM |
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Too many to list |
DrGonzoLives |
Nov-03-05 09:21 AM |
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Tulsa Race Riot---possibly the worst in American history |
bobbieinok |
Feb-19-06 08:13 PM |
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The Seattle General Strike |
ribofunk |
Apr-05-06 01:00 AM |
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Combined ops. |
edwardlindy |
Apr-06-06 04:54 PM |
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All the bad stuff we did to Haiti and The Philippines. |
TroubleMan |
Oct-20-06 09:40 PM |
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that link has changed ;-) |
Donnachaidh |
Dec-03-06 03:29 PM |
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Women's role in history |
Bjornsdotter |
Dec-15-06 08:14 PM |
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The fact that the vikings were the first Europeans to find the New world, not Columbus. |
Odin2005 |
Mar-03-07 11:17 AM |
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The United States record of |
adsosletter |
May-11-07 03:12 PM |
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How about ... |
cannabis_flower |
Aug-27-07 03:12 PM |
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I never heard of Emma Goldman ... |
cannabis_flower |
Aug-28-07 02:29 PM |
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The failed "business plot" coup against FDR. |
Odin2005 |
Aug-30-07 10:06 PM |
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The ousting of Chinese Americans from towns on the west coast. |
Sequoia |
Sep-25-07 12:25 PM |
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Me either ... |
ashling |
Feb-12-08 01:40 AM |
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Tuskegee syphilis experiments. |
tismyself |
Nov-26-08 09:57 AM |
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Great thread, Dude! |
Raster |
Apr-04-09 01:30 AM |
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Prescott Bush's bankrolling of Adolf Hitler. |
byronius |
Apr-04-09 03:49 AM |
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The Ludlow Massacre |
Political Heretic |
Apr-04-09 06:43 AM |
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East German Blacklisting and HUAC |
anansi133 |
Apr-04-09 12:06 PM |
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Economic history; in the sense of *real* economic history, linking factions together to understand |
Hannah Bell |
Apr-04-09 06:33 PM |
#116 |
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