You learn things chasing ancestors..things that aren't in the history books, nor quite spelled out in anthropology texts.
American kids hear a lot of Pilgrims seeking religous freedom in the Colonies, and not a great deal about the English Civil War, phase 1 and phase 2, which were about the same time. The two groups, the Pilgrims and the dispossessed landholders, hated each other, both settled in the colonies, and there was no great amount of trust. Ultimately the politics of the US...
Published on September 08, 2009 15:25