Rewriting history

History is an amazingly fluid discipline. Each nation seems to write it with a bias towards themselves, and what is fashionable and therefore 'good' one century is vilified the next.
It's fascinating to see the trends change by perusing old books.

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HumanEarth · F

Good point,

Like how USA history made a major change between 1910-1920 I had a history teacher back in highschool bring in a really school history book from late 1800s and compared with a modern highschool history book.

He pick a topic that was covered in both books.

American Indians wars

It was night and day. You can easily see a difference on what was told and what was left out.

The old book basically pointed out that the American government did was genocide to the American Indians. The modern book painted a whole different view point.

That was just one sample our history teacher pointed out to us kids.

JSul3 · 70-79

@HumanEarth Manifest Destiny....aka God Approved Genocide.