The title of this book is a bit unfair. It’s not that the teachers intended to teach what they did, it’s that they were sort of forced to by the textbook makers […]
Book Review: Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen – A Must-Read!
Book Review: On This Day in History Sh!t Went Down by James Fell
I’ve followed author James fell for a while on Facebook. He’s funny and irreverent and an expert on history. The real history, not the fairy tales we’ve been indoctrinated with over the […]
AudioBook Review: Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow – The Founding Fathers Were as Divided as We Are Now
I find history fascinating. I likely should have become a historian or a fact-checker and researcher for someone like Ken Burns. When I hear something that intrigues me, I want to know […]
AudioBook Review: A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn – The Most Important Book You’ve Probably Never Read
Truth be told, I haven’t “read” it yet either. I ended up purchasing the audiobook and listening to it over the course of a few months. It’s hard to digest rapidly, much […]
Book Review: Homeland by John Jakes – John Jakes’ Take on American Immigrant Experience
In the Afterword of his novel, Homeland, John Jakes explains that he purposely had this novel pick up in the year 1891, the same year that the final novel of his Kent […]
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