The more I know about REAL history by digging into original stuff myself (I'm a Historian by education...), the more I find out that almost EVERYTHING taught in school for the last 40-50 years is complete crap, and usually 180 out from actual history. At least the background on the Why & How - not the actual events.
My first giant Red Pill - before Red Pilling existed - came while attending USC (the one on the east coast that existed 100 + years before CA was a State) and doing research for a paper on the supposed "Civil War". I got some of the original manuscript and document stuff from the library, and after reading it, walked down to the capital building. Walked around to the west side of the building and saw the bronze stars on the side of the building where cannon balls from Sherman's shelling of the building are placed. I then walked up Main street that ran directly from the front of the capital building. That entire street had burned during the invasion. But what I learned is that it wasn't necessarily from Sherman's troops - but just as likely from southerners not wanting to allow the thousands of bales of cotton lining the street from falling into northern hands and starting them on fire themselves.
That 'in person' walking along the same ground and streets where the "history" happened, having done my own research, was a truly eye and mind opening experience. What I really learned on that afternoon was NOT that the Capital had been shelled from the high ground across the Congaree River at the confluence of the Broad and Saluda Rivers, but that not everything that I had been taught when I was younger was as it seemed, that written history may NOT be the actual truth, and to look beyond the first layer to determine the truth myself.
The more I know about REAL history by digging into original stuff myself (I'm a Historian by education...), the more I find out that almost EVERYTHING taught in school for the last 40-50 years is complete crap, and usually 180 out from actual history. At least the background on the Why & How - not the actual events.
My first giant Red Pill - before Red Pilling existed - came while attending USC (the one on the east coast that existed 100 + years before CA was a State) and doing research for a paper on the supposed "Civil War". I got some of the original manuscript and document stuff from the library, and after reading it, walked down to the capital building. Walked around to the west side of the building and saw the bronze stars on the side of the building where cannon balls from Sherman's shelling of the building are placed. I then walked up Main street that ran directly from the front of the capital building. That entire street had burned during the invasion. But what I learned is that it wasn't necessarily from Sherman's troops - but just as likely from southerners not wanting to allow the thousands of bales of cotton lining the street from falling into northern hands and starting them on fire themselves.
That 'in person' walking along the same ground and streets where the "history" happened, having done my own research, was a truly eye and mind opening experience. What I really learned on that afternoon was NOT that the Capital had been shelled from the high ground across the Congaree River at the confluence of the Broad and Saluda Rivers, but that not everything that I had been taught when I was younger was as it seemed, that written history may NOT be the actual truth, and to look beyond the first layer to determine the truth myself.
The real USC! Thanks for sharing. I'd never heard of this.