Dunning School of Reconstruction
Do you mean the Dunning School has an undeserved Dark Legend? I'm having trouble seeing that.
Dunning School of Reconstruction
Used to, to be more accurate. I mean, "the Radical Republicans were corrupt and power-hungry tyrants"Do you mean the Dunning School has an undeserved Dark Legend? I'm having trouble seeing that.
Used to, to be more accurate. I mean, "the Radical Republicans were corrupt and power-hungry tyrants"
Not a stance endorsed by many main stream churches mostly a US evangelical thing that. The Vatican for eg sees Evolution as compatible with Christianity as it did Newton's work before that. It just likes empirical evidence strangely when talking about science. Heck the Vatican has even considered the consequences of multiple evolutions on other worlds and concluded that there may be multiple incarnations....I’d argue there’s at least as much of the opposite as well. That is to say the religious painting science as antithetical because they don’t want to acknowledge reality. See evolution.
Columbus' critics opposed his plan because they believed that the world was flat.
In fact, they not only knew it was round, but had a far more realistic estimate of its size (Columbus assumed it was about half its actual diameter), so realised that going to the Indies by sailing west would be an impossibly long voyage. But since Columbus fortuitously discovered something he wasn't looking for, they have lived in ignominy as a bunch of ignoramuses who believed in a flat earth.
The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free any slaves. Except it quite literally freed thousands upon its declaration with slaves who had been traveling with the Union Army such as in the Carolinas and continued to free slaves as the armies marched further into the Deep South. Weirdly the idea that it didn't free slaves is presented as correcting a misconception.
Too many other popular conceptions about the American Civil War that have been promulgated by the Lost Cause and outdated early historiography of the conflict. The other notable one off the top of my head is "Grant the butcher and Lee the saint".
Yeah, it's weirdly one that gets repeated by both modern day Confederate sympathizers and those not sympathetic to the ConfederacyI never got that either. Now it is true it didn't free all slaves but like you said it freed the slaves traveling with the army and all slaves where the army marched in the future. The only slaves that had not been freed by the EP is where the US government already ruled on Jan 1st, 1863 which was mainly the border states. It took the 13th Amendment to change that and to make sure it was not overturned by the courts.
Columbus' critics opposed his plan because they believed that the world was flat.
In fact, they not only knew it was round, but had a far more realistic estimate of its size (Columbus assumed it was about half its actual diameter), so realised that going to the Indies by sailing west would be an impossibly long voyage. But since Columbus fortuitously discovered something he wasn't looking for, they have lived in ignominy as a bunch of ignoramuses who believed in a flat earth.
pretty much. i saw this video myself a while ago and this is what really brought me to the opinion that Columbus gets an unnecessarily bad rap. don't misread that: he undoubtedly did terrible things, but for all the evil people assign to him you'd think he was an immortal supervillain who was personally responsible for every single act of the entire Indian Genocide, and if you go around blaming Columbus as an individual for the Indian Genocide then you may as well blame the Mitochondrial Eve for every crime ever committed by every human ever in the history of ever because none of us would exist if it weren't for that one single individual from whom all living humans descend and therefore all those crimes, no matter how small, would never have happened.
In the thread of Columbus, I suggest you guys go and watch this. Afterwards, though I recommend going to the comments to clear any issues with the video may have for you (the biggest one being his translations of Columbus' diaries and the terminology used but that's still being debated on). Most importantly it deals with the Columbus Earth size issue and his plans.
In the thread of Columbus, I suggest you guys go and watch this. Afterwards, though I recommend going to the comments to clear any issues with the video may have for you (the biggest one being his translations of Columbus' diaries and the terminology used but that's still being debated on). Most importantly it deals with the Columbus Earth size issue and his plans.
Agreed, if the Americas weren't there he would have starved to death on voyage.
Lucy Wolsey is doing a series on BBC on the greatest fibs in US history later this year.The Emancipation Proclamation didn't free any slaves. Except it quite literally freed thousands upon its declaration with slaves who had been traveling with the Union Army such as in the Carolinas and continued to free slaves as the armies marched further into the Deep South. Weirdly the idea that it didn't free slaves is presented as correcting a misconception.
Too many other popular conceptions about the American Civil War that have been promulgated by the Lost Cause and outdated early historiography of the conflict. The other notable one off the top of my head is "Grant the butcher and Lee the saint".
AFAIK people did not really know how far East China and Japan went either, that could have helped with bad calculationsColumbus' critics opposed his plan because they believed that the world was flat.
In fact, they not only knew it was round, but had a far more realistic estimate of its size (Columbus assumed it was about half its actual diameter), so realised that going to the Indies by sailing west would be an impossibly long voyage. But since Columbus fortuitously discovered something he wasn't looking for, they have lived in ignominy as a bunch of ignoramuses who believed in a flat earth.
is it really whitewashing or just that it happened so long ago? There were a lot of brutal massacres throughout history, many of them are scarcely remembered today...I think they're the only civilization in history that significantly decreased global population by killing as many people as they did. If anything, I think they've been whitewashed way too much of late. Killing millions is a-okay so long as you don't discriminate by religion, apparently.
is it really whitewashing or just that it happened so long ago? There were a lot of brutal massacres throughout history, many of them are scarcely remembered today...