return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agoWhat's the "keeping it real" history that Americans are taught the whitewashed version in school?message-squaremessage-square44fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down14
arrow-up164arrow-down1message-squareWhat's the "keeping it real" history that Americans are taught the whitewashed version in school?return2ozma@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square44fedilink
minus-squareTruscape@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoCan you rephrase the question? I’m not sure if you’re referring to the sanitized version we are taught, or the other side of history that is withheld.
minus-squarereturn2ozma@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-22 months agoI’m looking for the real history. Not the Pilgrims and the native Americans sang kumbaya
minus-squareFletcher@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·2 months agoAs has been mentioned before - Howard Zinn. His ‘A People’s History of the United States’ is jaw-dropping. This book literally changed my life.
minus-squareTruscape@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 months agoI knew that book was solid when my father said it was too radical lol
minus-squareFletcher@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up7·2 months agoHeheh…a very wise man once told me that ‘every truth begins as a heresy’. In the 30+ years since I was told this, I have found it to be completely accurate. :)
Can you rephrase the question? I’m not sure if you’re referring to the sanitized version we are taught, or the other side of history that is withheld.
I’m looking for the real history. Not the Pilgrims and the native Americans sang kumbaya
As has been mentioned before - Howard Zinn. His ‘A People’s History of the United States’ is jaw-dropping. This book literally changed my life.
I knew that book was solid when my father said it was too radical lol
Heheh…a very wise man once told me that ‘every truth begins as a heresy’. In the 30+ years since I was told this, I have found it to be completely accurate. :)