re: #111 keloyd

Windupbird, Vambo, Soap_man -
What I’m hearing is you and I were all in hs within the space of a decade, and all had a wide spread of both what was emphasized and the competence of our history teachers/coaches teaching history part time. I stand by my point, all history since it was written with birds and squiggles and people with dog-heads on Egyptian tombs is 90% spin. The direction depends on who just grabbed power from whom. Show me someone who knows some good and proper history and I’ll show you someone who read a whole lot beyond textbooks. In any event, no one in this ‘Christian’ nation is willing to pay me for my blog-fu, so I gotta get to work.

I think you are wildly exaggerating the notion that there’s some mysterious leftist influence that de-emphasizes real history. I don’t believe it’s true. OF COURSE you get better history from finding great sources on your own. That’s not the same thing as claiming we didn’t study battles of WWII. ;-) Hell, my 300-level college courses on art history didn’t scratch the surface of what I wanted to learn, so I struck out and learned on my own.