Why did these go unreleased for so long?

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Virginia.

I will caveat this before anyone says how progressive that was for the south…

My elementary school still very much taught the Civil War as “the war of northern aggression.”

So, still certainly a mixed bag on the education side I guess.

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What state do you do high school in?

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Yeah I figured as much. That why I said I don't know if it's accurate. But he did live through it and he was a consultant. So he probably told many of the smaller details correct. Just now the hero and villan aspect

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About the only guy badass enough to do that to The Undertaker

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I honestly cant remember the 90s it being discussed but then I was a terrible student in HS. College for sure but I was a history major and I went as an adult so.. 10+ year difference.

I went to HS in Wilmington, NC in the late 90’s and it was never mentioned. There was a sign on Market St heading into downtown that called the event a “race riot” (The sign has now been amended to “massacre”, I believe). The only race that rioted was the whites .

I’m glad to see all the research being brought to light recently. I read “Wilmington‘s Lie” by David Zucchino. It is very heavy, but the truth should be known.

Earp lied about a lot to make himself look better. For instance, Morgan was sheriff, not Wyatt.

I will go with Founders. While I have read HW Brands work before there was already a book on the exact topic and just because a work is older doesn't mean it's less of a piece. I was curious what Brands might add to something that is already out there for three decades.

Thank you. It's hard to find the appropriate place to ask this on Reddit.

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I had never been taught about the Tulsa race riots until i learned about them here on reddit. On top of that, 'race riots' makes it sound like black people rioting, rather than the white people rioting and killing black people, just another subtle white washing.

This is a version of environmental determinism. It basically comes out of the Victorian "race science" with things like phrenology and it's bunk. It starts from a bad assumption and then works backwards. So, it starts by assuming Anglo Saxon protestant and Nordic peoples are the superior race and then tries to make up evidence to support it.

There was just as much democratic tradition in the Americas, Polynesia, Australia, and Africa, but b/c a decision was already made about those cultures the evidence was either ignored, or more often not even considered. Ideas of tribal communities with all power chiefs was assumed to be their system of governance and that was that.

It was mostly used as a justification of colonialism and imperialism. In the Americas it's also very closely tied to the justifications of genocide and land appropriation of the indigenous residents.

On top of that, it just doesn't make sense. Florida is also a peninsula. Korea is also a peninsula, south east Asia is basically peninsula after peninsula. There's mountains pretty much everywhere and the biggest mountains are in Asia. There's natural harbors along pretty much every coast and some places, like the Gulf of Mexico is basically one big harbor. The Americas were probably the most forested land in the world, and still are. No one is looking at Brazil for examples of democracy.

No respected historians believe it b/c it's so easy to find counterexamples.