History

I am interested to know how many people are interested in History. Any Kind, just post what kind interests you! As for me; Everything!

Military history for me.  Especially the American Civil War.  We're just a few short years from the 150th anniversary of the ACW!

I am with you!

The past must be studied in order to plan a better future!

im learning about ancient egypt witch is intresting

I think the history & psychology of religion, starting from when people first began worshipping fire, or the sun, or whatever else man first chose to worship, would be an immensly interesting topic.

how do you do this logan

I'm particularly interested in the American Revolutionary War.  Especially after the publication of Rebels and Redcoats by Hugh Bicheno which debunked a lot of myths concerning the war.  I recommend reading it to those who paid to see that the most distorted of history films, Mel Gibson's 'The Patriot'.

Distortions?.....Examples?.....Please clarify our history......

Well there are so many, but don't get me wrong I'm  not American bashing if anything I'm an americanophile, but like all nations we guard our national myths.  The trouble is, as it pointed out by Bichino (who is American) its dangerous to allow our myths to influence policy, especially at the expense of one's closest friends which the film goes out to do.

  I shall give one example to wet your appetite though.  In Gibson's 'Patriot an episode was shown in which a seemingly psychotic British officer heard-ed peaceful civilians into a church and set it on fire, rather like one would have expected of the SS during the second world war.  I think this character was very loosely based on the British colonel Banastre Tarleton one of the mose effective British leaders of the war.  Well such an event did happen but guess what, it was the patriots who clubbed to death 93 unarmed men and women of the Delaware tribe scalped them hid the bodies in the school house of Gnadenhutten then burnt the village down!  I was so disgusted with the flagrent misrepresentation of history I walked out of the theatre and decided to read about the war.

Thanks for the courtesy of your reply...."The trouble is, as it pointed out by Bichino (who is American) its dangerous to allow our myths to influence policy, especially at the expense of one's closest friends which the film goes out to do."......While I do concede the inaccuracies in the movie (most all movies are a poor source for history) they present not much "trouble" me thinks. The ties between America and England have always been strong. Our forebears simply had an inclination to shake off the old shackles of "bloodline privilege" so to speak,  being no great fans of the divine right of kings.The world as well as England is better for it. We much prefer to reserve our worship for the likes of Elvis and the Beatles...;)...I would also add that there is certainly no shortage of irrational self-loathing between these shores so national origin is in no way an indicator of lack of bias in matters of historical reflection.

Go to post forum. Type what you want in it.

Well my hackles were raised as my old army regiment fought in the war from Bunker Hill to Yorktown. 

Wow! You've been around quite a while. I can see why you're bitter......;)....I just recently came across Churchill's four volume set. Looking forward to getting into it.

Just bought a copy 'The Origns of the Second World War' by AJP Taylor after reading on the back of the book that, 'Hitler didn't set out to start the 2nd world war as part of a master plan'.

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