My High School history teacher Senior year was one of those radical, young-gun, everything-you-know-about-history-is-wrong types. He was always quick to point out that American history in particular was often sanitized and white washed.

For example, he took great joy in telling us that the pilgrims were actually greedy idiots who didn’t leave England because of religious persecution but were just greedy and came to America looking for gold, and that the Indians were much smarter and stronger but lost anyway because the stupid dirty White people were crawling with diseases and didn’t know how to bathe.

He kept that up all year happily deconstructing the Revolutionary War, The Civil War, The French Revolution, etc… until he got to World War Two. That’s the one event in human history that has been reported with 100% accuracy and absolutely no lies or embellishments from the victors.

My High School history teacher Senior year was one of those radical, young-gun, everything-you-know-about-history-is-wrong types. He was always quick to point out that history was often sanitized and white washed.

For example, he took great joy in telling us that the pilgrims were actually greedy idiots who didn’t leave England because of religious persecution but were just greedy and came to America looking for gold, and that the Indians were much smarter and stronger but lost anyway because the stupid dirty White people were crawling with diseases and didn’t know how to bathe.

He kept that up all year happily deconstructing the Revolutionary War, The Civil War, The French Revolution, etc… until he got to World War Two. That’s the one event in human history that has been reported with 100% accuracy and absolutely no lies or embellishments from the victors.