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- The Skeptic's Guide to American History The Great Courses #8588
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review Û PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ´ Mark Stoler Mark Stoler ´ 0 read The Skeptic's Guide to American History The Great Courses #8588 review ☆ 100 Your understanding of this great nation's past and actually strengthen your appreciation for what makes American history su Come election time you re going to want to have read this book in order to see through the garbage that s dished out as history by politicians Ewing says Simple truths about history are lies about complex subjects Every such truth has layers and layers of depth and breadth that no 30 second sound byte can capture This book is good at exposing the myths the disinformation and the things that historians like myself have been deceived into believing For example I always thought that Herbert Hoover took a passive stance toward the Great Depression He actually tried lots of remedies some of which Franklin Roosevelt later took the credit for The fact that we have a bad opinion of Hoover is largely due to the myths about him that Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted to perpetuate This is only one fascinating example from this marvelous book The Coquette and the Boarding School re going to want to have Imagimorphia read this book in order to see through the garbage that s dished out as history by politicians Ewing says Simple truths about history are lies about complex subjects Every such truth has layers and layers of depth and breadth that no 30 second sound byte can capture This book is good at exposing the myths the disinformation and the things that historians like myself have been deceived into believing For example I always thought that Herbert Hoover took a passive stance toward the Great Depression He actually tried lots of The Book of Beginnings remedies some of which Franklin Roosevelt later took the credit for The fact that we have a bad opinion of Hoover is largely due to the myths about him that Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted to perpetuate This is only one fascinating example from this marvelous book
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review Û PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ´ Mark Stoler Mark Stoler ´ 0 read The Skeptic's Guide to American History The Great Courses #8588 review ☆ 100 Ch a fascinating chapter in the larger story of Western civilization And in this bold 24 lecture series you can do just that Further ideology and perceptions are themselves products of all the general factors previously cited as causes of the war Economics culture politics political theory moral values And the common denominator linking all of these previously sited causes is SLAVERY It is therefore the basic cause of the war This book is many things but most importantly what this book is NOT is an accurate representation of American history Firstly I purchased this audiobook using a free Audible credit I had and I bought it because of its catchy title I am a skeptic for all things particularly history so the title naturally caught my eye Mark Stoler is many things but most importantly what he is NOT is someone who understands American history This at best a slightly unintentional genocide apologist book trying to use the fallacy and rhetoric of anachronism to justify the actions and beliefs of people in the past More specifically anachronism is a tool often used by historians and anthropologists to justify not using genocide to describe the actions of people of past because technically genocide did not come into existence as a legally accepted term until 1948 by the United Nations At worst this audiobook is an attempt of revisionist history that completely neglects to give settler colonialism the Doctrine of Discovery and the genocide of indigenous people the rightful screen time they deserve when talking about American history The American Civil War most certainly involved disagreements about slavery But at the core were systemic extermination of indigenous people land grabs asserting dominance over others and nature through white supremacy and rapacious means of extracting everything one could from the land without the consent of the indigenous peoples Slavery was merely a byproduct of settler colonialism and while terrible slavery is too often conflated as the reason for why conflicts and war started in America It is the master narrative given time and time again and it is a cop out to avoid the deeper discussions on colonization white supremacy and the Doctrine of Discovery the Christian faith ascribed as justification of asserting dominance over others and nature Mark s message of The skeptic s guide to American history is also muddied by his deep long lasting career in the US military The US military is universally accepted as a genocide machine and continues to push content to perpetuate the idea that indigenous people no longer exist that North America was a land without people and the pilgrims were a people without a land This is not a skeptic s book but rather plucking slight half truths of US history Colonialism never stopped in America in fact the American government continues to wage land wars against indigenous peoples today who are still very much alive and thriving The Big Golden Book of Poetry representation of American history Firstly I purchased this audiobook using a free Audible credit I had and I bought it because of its catchy title I am a skeptic for all things particularly history so the title naturally caught my eye Mark Stoler is many things but most importantly what he is NOT is someone who understands American history This at best a slightly unintentional genocide apologist book trying to use the fallacy and NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW rhetoric of anachronism to justify the actions and beliefs of people in the past More specifically anachronism is a tool often used by historians and anthropologists to justify not using genocide to describe the actions of people of past because technically genocide did not come into existence as a legally accepted term until 1948 by the United Nations At worst this audiobook is 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Discovery the Christian faith ascribed as justification of asserting dominance over others and nature Mark s message of The skeptic s guide to American history is also muddied by his deep long lasting career in the US military The US military is universally accepted as a genocide machine and continues to push content to perpetuate the idea that indigenous people no longer exist that North America was a land without people and the pilgrims were a people without a land This is not a skeptic s book but Tremors of Fury (The Days of Ash and Fury rather plucking slight half truths of US history Colonialism never stopped in America in fact the American government continues to wage land wars against indigenous peoples today who are still very much alive and thriving
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review Û PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ´ Mark Stoler Mark Stoler ´ 0 read The Skeptic's Guide to American History The Great Courses #8588 review ☆ 100 To take a skeptical approach to American history is not to dabble in imaginative conspiracy theories; rather it's to reframe The Skeptics Guide to American History is a collection of fairly short lectures that take the listener from the Revolutionary War to the end of the Cold War For the most part it s a history of politics and conflict and I found myself surprised than once with Mark A Stoler s perspective on the past It is anything but complete but offers an insight into America s history and dispels some of the myths that many Americans believe to be true As a non American I found it particularly insightful and I think it s definitely worth the effort for Americans who have a high school knowledge of American history but it s probably not really of much interest to academics and historians Imagimorphia rather it's to The Book of Beginnings reframe The Skeptics Guide to American History is a collection of fairly short lectures that take the listener from the Revolutionary War to the end of the Cold War For the most part it s a history of politics and conflict and I found myself surprised than once with Mark A Stoler s perspective on the past It is anything but complete but offers an insight into America s history and dispels some of the myths that many Americans believe to be true As a non American I found it particularly insightful and I think it s definitely worth the effort for Americans who have a high school knowledge of American history but it s probably not The Homelanders (The Homelanders, really of much interest to academics and historians