Am I the only one disturbed by all the hisorical revisionism that seems to be going around ? Does it strike anyone else there might be a deeper agenda going on ? ~malinda > The goal of the teacher is to instill a desire to learn more than what > he/she is presenting in the classroom. Looking back on my own acquired > interest in history, I seem to recall that I began loving history at a young > age. Much of what I have learned from that time to the present wasn't > provided entirely in the classroom. But, my teachers piqued my interest and > I took the initiative to borrow books from the library to learn more. Now, > with the Internet, a history teacher can direct his/her students to so many > more resources than I once had.

What do you mean by historical revisionism ? I went to elementary school in the 1950s and I think I got a lousey sense of what the American Revolution was all about. No discussion about the fact that many soldiers were drafted. It was all Washington, Jefferson and so on and there was little discussion about the average people who actually fought the war. No references to Black people and little discussion that Washington and Jefferson owned Black people. As far as I'm concerned this was a misrepresentation of what the American Revolution, long on heros but lacking fact and substance. Jim malinda wrote: > > Am I the only one disturbed by all the hisorical revisionism that > seems to be going around ? Does it strike anyone else there might > be a deeper agenda going on ? > > ~malinda > > > The goal of the teacher is to instill a desire to learn more than what > > he/she is presenting in the classroom. Looking back on my own acquired > > interest in history, I seem to recall that I began loving history at a > young > > age. Much of what I have learned from that time to the present wasn't > > provided entirely in the classroom. But, my teachers piqued my interest > and > > I took the initiative to borrow books from the library to learn more. Now, > > with the Internet, a history teacher can direct his/her students to so > many > > more resources than I once had. > > ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Conestoga Area Historical Society Web Page =-= Stokes Family Web Page http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacahs/index.htm =-= http://home.supernet.com/~jlstokes =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-