Comments by "" (@craigkdillon) on "The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered"
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School only has the time to acquaint you with the highlights of history at best. Besides wars, did you learn about
Spanish American War, Roaring Twenties, Suffragette Movement & the Vote for Women, The Great Depression, The Dust Bowl, The Progressive Movement & The Roosevelts, The Berlin Blockade, Korean War, Cold War, Civil Rights movement, Vietnam War, a few other 20th Century goodies???
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@freesk8 History is difficult.
1. We all have selective memories. We remember what we like, and suppress or forget what we don't.
2. I do not believe much of history has intentional lies in it. One problem is historians usually believe the standard telling of it.
For instance, there are aspects of the Revolutionary War that are strange, when you think about them.
But, those questions are never even recognized.
BTW. I don't believe there any "lies" in it, but incomplete truths that don't tell the whole story.
If you want to really know and understand history, you have to read different histories. And, you have to read those who challenge the usual story.
Unfortunately, the "alternative" histories usually have an axe to grind, and are more likely to make things up -- like the black revisionist histories that want to make the Egyptians black.
So, you have to be careful whatever you read.
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That period was also important for the development of the Progressive and Labor movements.
The 1890's was the time of the Robber Barons and monopolies. That gave rise to Progressives in the Republican Party, headed by Theodore Roosevelt. That led to the Taft Hartley Act, and the break up of Standard Oil. Monopolies have since been frowned upon, until the recent changes in the GOP since Reagan.
It was the period of the Haymarket Riots, and the demand for better working conditions, adequate pay, and a shorter work week. The current era of new monopolies, like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have created a new era of Robber Barons, who control our economy, and with the GOP, our government.
In response, a new Progressive Movement has been born.
Will it succeed? Will our economy and government be saved, and returned to working for the people?
I wonder.....
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@TheHistoryGuyChannel I think much more was going on.
The book Slave Nation makes a very good argument that the Revolutionary War done to retain slavery.
1. Consider the Somerset Case and English Common Law. The precedent it set would eventually set the slaves in the colonies free, too. Therefore, the slave owners in the South, and the Slave Traders in Boston wanted to maintain the slave system. Which also explains the Boston/Virginia axis, and why New York was hardly involved. (didn't you ever find that strange? I did.)
2. The book Redcoats & Rebels talks about how King George begged for a compromise, but the Americans stood on principal. WTF??? Yankee traders travel the world making all kinds of shady deals, and they couldn't cut King George a deal???
Something else was going on, IMO. The Colonies had to be free.
3. The rabble rousing across the colonies seemed too well coordinated and funded to be truly spontaneous. Also, IMO.
Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, etc.. it seems very well calculated.
Don't forget the guy who really signed the Declaration of Independence with his flourishing signature was John Hancock, who is NEVER talked about in history books.
Who was he?? -- A smuggler, and one of the richest men. Could he have been financing Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, and other rabble rousers??
Just look at how Fox, Brietbart, and others today are financed by both domestic and foreign monies.
There is more to the Revolutionary War than the standard story, IMHO.
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