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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Where I Started But In A Different Place
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Jun 9th, 2003, 01:39 PM
[quote="KevinTheHerbivore
2. While I appreciate his historical perspective, I wouldn't recommend that someone looking for a broad lesson start with Zinn.
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I once took a Western History course in which the instructor said that some of the worlds first historians were more or less bards that were in the hire of the local leaders and sang/wrote these dramatic, epic ballads that were not only skewed but outright lies ... in favor of THAT leader, of course.
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