Hi - Have to put my two cents worth in, as this has long been a pet peeve. To the victor go the spoils -- and in this case, history since the civil war has been written by the victor. No where is this more obvious than when researching Jamestown history. Why do we think not of Jamestown but of Pilgrims two decades later when referring to first settlement of America. Hopefully, there will be a big enough birthday in 2007 to overcome this. Sandra Taylor author-IN-PROGRESS-of-Nation-Of-Kings, non-fiction "novel" on settlers of Jamestown. (If you have any anecdotes on your ancestors who were among Jamestown settlers, I'd love to have them) Harold Miller wrote: > At 11:49 PM 8/9/99 -0400, you wrote: > >I have wondered why NE Colonies seem to get huge boost in History > text > >books whereas Virginia and SC hardly get a mention even about their > Rev War > >participation. > > > >Wasn't JAMESTOWN before PLYMOUTH COLONY? > > > >I can only speculate that NE and US govt write the text books. > > > >josie > > well Josie......try working on Civil War history. All you see is > Robert E. > Lee and the Army of Virginia. They might have been the best, but > there was > also a war fought in the "west" - places like MO, Kansas, Arkansas, > Arizona. > Finding that in the history books is difficult. Also, the men from > the west > were fighting against U.S. Grant at Shilo, Vicksburg, etc. He had to > beat > them before he was noticed by the powers that be, and sent against > Lee. > > Another one of my gripes.....what about women in the history books? > You see > Daniel Boone, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson.....always men. > > Or what about the colored troops who fought and died in 1860-1865? or > the > early black immigration to the west? > > I guess I could go on, just as long as we know not everyone made it > into the > history books. That is probably why we are all searching for our > family > roots, cause they are not in the history books. That does not make > our > ancestors any less important, just un-recorded heros. > > Mary > > ==== Southern-Trails Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the list, send a message to > [email protected] if you are subscribed to the > list, > or [email protected] if you are subscribed to the > digest. > In the body of your message put only the word unsubscribe