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Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
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“The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)”
― Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
― Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
“throughout American history, and certainly under our existing corporate-sponsored democracy, a good case can be made that America is and has been a government of, for, and by the special interests.”
― Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
― Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
“So I find myself in complete agreement with the American critic of businessmen who once attacked “men of wealth, who find the purchased politician the most efficient instrument of corruption”; men who were “the most dangerous members of the criminal class—the criminal of great wealth.”
― Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
― Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
“For all too many Americans who dozed through American History 101, the Mayflower Compact might as well be a small car. Reconstruction has something to do with silicone implants. And the Louisiana Purchase means eating out at a Cajun restaurant. When the first edition of this book appeared more than twenty years ago, several writers had just enjoyed remarkable success by lambasting Americans’ failure to know our past.”
― Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
― Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never Learned
“1539 First printing press in New World set up in Mexico City.”
― Don't Know Much About History
― Don't Know Much About History
“what really led to the conquest of the Americas was not military might or a superior culture. The largest single factor in the destruction of the native populations in the Americas was the introduction of epidemic diseases to which the natives had no natural immunity.”
― Don't Know Much About History
― Don't Know Much About History
