Barbara's "Two Cents"! :) > ... My objection is the effort to make history politically correct ... -->> Yup. And for that matter - "who's politics"? Politically correct "to the left" or "to the right"? LOL Shoot - Lucy and Ricky couldn't sleep in the same bed on TV in the 1950s. And families "certainly" didn't have a divorce or an adoption in "their families"! LOL Times change - about what's "ok" and "not ok". The pendulum just keeps on swinging! (Almost - like "clockwork"! LOL) And now and again - we have "revisionists" about this or that timeframe of history. Again - by "some yardstick"! :) Of course, we could just go to the "certainties" of "death and taxes"! LOL Guess in the scheme of things - I'd rather just "know things" - and assess them for myself - rather than be "told them" as - er - "canon", you know? Or worse - only told "some things" with some kind of "magic filter" in place. If I happen to "embrace" what is "current canon" - fine - but it's choice, not default if that makes any sense? Deb (who can't believe she is replying to "this subj line" again! LOL But - think I'll go "change it" - right now - from "ashamed american history" to "musings on history"! LOL)