Heck when I have time to read them I usually enjoy your historical essays. (Even if in context of HP your history is interesting and I usually just find myself disagreeing with the literary analysis aspect, which is a bit subjective.)
I've always had issues with the presentation of history as a progressive line in which things become less barbaric and more civilized. I'm generalizing a lot here, but at least in Texas, that is generally how it's taught, which leads to the idiotic asusmption you attacked so well here.
Sadly in a lot of classrooms, history is much less about learning what's happened and much more about propaganda.
Recently a whole batch of American history textbooks was rejected for being too honest about the Founding Fathers, so is it any wonder that the more complex development (and less US-centric)of Representative Government is not taught?
Anyway, again fascinating and I wish I could say more as I think I told you, art, art history and English were my areas of study.
If you've written anything on the development of art in Italy however, I'd love to read that!
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Heck when I have time to read them I usually enjoy your historical essays. (Even if in context of HP your history is interesting and I usually just find myself disagreeing with the literary analysis aspect, which is a bit subjective.)
I've always had issues with the presentation of history as a progressive line in which things become less barbaric and more civilized. I'm generalizing a lot here, but at least in Texas, that is generally how it's taught, which leads to the idiotic asusmption you attacked so well here.
Sadly in a lot of classrooms, history is much less about learning what's happened and much more about propaganda.
Recently a whole batch of American history textbooks was rejected for being too honest about the Founding Fathers, so is it any wonder that the more complex development (and less US-centric)of Representative Government is not taught?
Anyway, again fascinating and I wish I could say more as I think I told you, art, art history and English were my areas of study.
If you've written anything on the development of art in Italy however, I'd love to read that!