Good for you Mary! I agree our ancestors are what history is all about. Too bad the powers that be that wrote the histories didn't realize how important all these plain folks were. Shadow -----Original Message----- From: Harold Miller <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 12:27 AM Subject: History books >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 >