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Inherent in the myth we’ve been taught is an embrace of settler colonialism and genocide.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
A memorial was built by the Works Progress Administration in memory of the victims, atop a crypt containing the remains and ashes of about three hundred. The structure, in Islamorada at MM 81.5, was unveiled before a crowd of five thousand on November 14, 1937, by nine-year-old hurricane survivor Fay Marie Parker. “Dedicated to the memory of the ci
... See moreLes Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean
Ironically, then, like places throughout the South, Harpers Ferry is a monument to the defeated. Only here the defeated are wild-eyed radical abolitionist John Brown and his companions, and not the Confederate dead.
Imani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
textbooks distributed in history and social studies classes in this country you will read that the Arawak people disappeared or went extinct. In those books you will not read the word “genocide” because “genocide” means a crime was committed. You will not read “survivors” because in an ethical and moral world “survivors” means restitution must stil
... See moreKathryn Nuernberger • The Witch of Eye
On the other hand, there are astonishing gaps and silences, whole chunks of history that are left out altogether or dismissed in a phrase or odd sentence.
Thucydides • History of the Peloponnesian War
The Holocaust
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In modern America, as in modern China, the history you hear about is the history the establishment finds to be politically useful against its internal and external rivals.
