HIS 315K Lecture Notes - Body Politic, George Whitefield, Orange S.A.
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The philosophy of history (reading history vs. doing/engaging with history) Textbook example: if texas is able to require specific textbooks, there are already a lot of students in texas, so all textbooks in the u. s. were re-written. History should be taught in a non-biased factual way . Zinn and johnson is taught from 2 different perspectives (somewhat more of an agenda) But can think events/people are more significant (but people do not have an intentional agenda) Foner does not include every primary document (probably trying to get wide range but unintentionally including some and not including others) The earliest americans (the new world to europeans, not americans western hemisphere) First migrations probably began about 20,000 to 30,000 years during the ice age. Crossed a land bridge beringia: came for food, bison, wooly mammoth (big game animals, ice age ended about 10,000 years ago (waters rise, cutting off those in the.
