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Due to recent mainstream productions I feel the need to present a series here for those interested in further reading.
I feel that there has been some activist history presented where half truths and dramatization have been used to present an agenda as fact rather than a balanced accurate history.
Nothing is really wrong with an agenda as long as the agenda driven historian is willing to concede to proven fact. When that agenda trumps fact, when history is used as a mere promotion tool, that is when history becomes sensational fiction.
Different points of view have and always will be important. These views stimulate the historian to research further. First and foremost the role a historian should be a "truth seeker".
In that vein I plan to present the following...
1781-1800
1800-1811
1811-1815
1815-1836
I will try provide references if I do not have references, I will at least provide a name so that you the reader can research for your own and make your own conclusions.
As this is a forum and more specifically the media forum I encourage anyone to add, argue, and just join in this discussion.
1781-1800 is coming soon!
I feel that there has been some activist history presented where half truths and dramatization have been used to present an agenda as fact rather than a balanced accurate history.
Nothing is really wrong with an agenda as long as the agenda driven historian is willing to concede to proven fact. When that agenda trumps fact, when history is used as a mere promotion tool, that is when history becomes sensational fiction.
Different points of view have and always will be important. These views stimulate the historian to research further. First and foremost the role a historian should be a "truth seeker".
In that vein I plan to present the following...
1781-1800
1800-1811
1811-1815
1815-1836
I will try provide references if I do not have references, I will at least provide a name so that you the reader can research for your own and make your own conclusions.
As this is a forum and more specifically the media forum I encourage anyone to add, argue, and just join in this discussion.
1781-1800 is coming soon!
Westward expansion didn't really start until the conclusion of the Mexican War. That's when thing really got moving.
