Posted by sigismund on September 23, 2013, at 0:38:40
In reply to Re: Lincoln, posted by baseball55 on September 22, 2013, at 19:23:26
I bought Howard Zinns "A People's History of the USA" at Lima airport. I didn't know anything much about the US, especially long ago. Interesting take on the decision to fight slavery from above. We must resist the temptation to see the past in today's terms. People can only be people of their time. But still, in that script he felt ahead of it, and that was interesting with him being a lawyer because that is not how I think of them these days. "Rough Crossing" by Simon Schama was very good too. My idea of good history.
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