There are a number of accounts of numbers of troops volley firing in combat at individuals at quite close range and missing. In their eagerness to find female heroines of the Revolutionary War, eighteen of the twenty-two texts feature the story of Molly Pitcher.

Fischer’s book was so popular that textbook writers had to deal with this new information: Revere was not alone, they now admit — William Dawes (and sometimes Samuel Prescott) rode as well.

The Indians — all male warriors, were fed as a gesture of peace.

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When it comes to an American history book, the author could be extremely patriotic and portray the past the way he sees it.

Let me put it this way, the bayonet is still a valid military tool in the 21st century. The military literature of the era is replete with admonitions to hold fire till short range. (The legend did not settle on a flesh-and-blood woman until the 1876 Centennial, based only on the word of a local promoter from Carlisle, Pennsylvania.)

Likewise, current texts include some mention of the Native American presence in the Revolutionary War, but their narratives display a serious bias. run (charge) = ~ 2-3 seconds for ten yards During the film I learned about something that shook me to my core that I had not heard before. Textbooks in recent years have certainly become more inclusive, but giving the nod to multiculturalism is not synonymous with getting the story right. In 1997, Pauline Maier published a book of equal import, American Scripture. Let me quote from page 232 in Loewen: "It is even possible that the FBI or the CIA was involved in the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. "Raoul' in Montreal, who supplied King's convicted killer, James Earl Ray, with the alias "Eric Gault," was apparently a CIA agent. Living under armed guards, in holes in the ground, with extremely scarce rations, it is no wonder that more than 3,500 Navajo and Mescalero Apache men, women, and children died while in the concentration camp. Many of which happen to be self involved know it alls that beleive they have the only correct information. Some say these myths are harmless — what damage can stories do? According to tribal oral histories as well as The True Story of Pocahontas by members of the Mattaponi Tribe, Pocahontas’ original young Native husband was killed and Pocahontas’ newborn was given to relatives before she was forced into captivity at about 15 or 16 years of age. Thank you!

When I was a student in high school, I learned that George Washington saw Indians in Virginia and possibly heard once or twice about the Cherokee Trail of Tears. There are many fine U.S. textbooks that competently cover the main people and events and themes of American history.

Over the intervening years the distances in which death could be dealt has indeed increased. Of all the texts, the one that perpetuates the most untruths about the American Revolution— I found a whopping seventeen — is Joy Hakim’s immensely popular, A History of US.

By early fall — half a year before Lexington and Concord — British rule had come to an end, both politically and militarily, for 95 percent of the inhabitants of Massachusetts. Dr. Arica L. Coleman is the assistant professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware. There are many accounts of the Nazis and Hitler studying Indian reservations for guidance in planning encampments for Jewish people.

There were no famous “leaders” for this event — the people elected representatives who served for one day only, the ultimate in term limits. His actions have been coined as “pencil genocide.”. “At this time… it was ‘Redskin’ that was used to describe us.”, In his post, Goldtooth also included a newspaper clipping from after the U.S. Dakota Wars of 1862: “The state reward for dead Indians has been increased to $200 for every red-skin sent to Purgatory.”. - The 90 earlier Declarations of Independence The effective rate of aimed volley fire for a flintlock musket is about 45 seconds.

walk (quick march) =~ 6 seconds for ten yards

With zest! There is much in this article to give one pause. They change our view of historical and political processes.

The worst situation is to shoot at too long a range and then not be able to get off a second shot.

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In short, real history gets lost, much of it very important: The reasons that nineteenth century mythologies are still perpetuated in twenty-first century texts are deeply rooted in both narrative structures and American nationalism.

Was there any single point in what the author wrote in this article that a typical 5th-grader (maybe even a 4th-grader) could not understand? History in textbooks today is not the same as it was several years ago. Hakim is a masterful storyteller, and she has based her account on how stories play to young readers, not on whether they are true.

How strange that the story of any revolution can be told without at least a mention of the initial overthrow of political and military authority. Demonizing and removing the leader does not mean you have cleaned up the whole mob. “The first slaves in the Americas were Native American and this business that the Native Americans died off as a result of disease and war [is inaccurate]—those were not the only reasons for their demise, there was the Indian slave trade, which is something we do not discuss a lot,” she writes. But history is quite a bit different. Text and lecture should be complimentary, not competing with each other. As for bayonets, I suggest that their main use in combat in those days was in fending off or discouraging cavalry attacks on infantry.

The pan-Indian resistance movements of the 1780s — again, the largest coalitions of Native Americans in our history — are entirely neglected. I learned a lot about some of my own blind spots in US history.

In the case of human bones, starvation episodes during childhood leave a kind of "tree-ring," the Harris Line of Growth Arrest. Professor Loewen twice acknowledged to me that he has not read Gerald Posner's book "Killing the Dream." - The 1774 defacto overthrow of the British rule in Massachusetts

This is no accident. “It was only five generations ago that a white man could get money for one of my grandfather’s scalps,” wrote 1491’s comedian Dallas Goldtooth on Facebook. In chapters on the post-war period — right at the moment of the greatest white incursion onto Native lands in United States history— the Indian presence mysteriously disappears. How do textbook writers deal with advances in modern scholarship that disprove, or at least deconstruct, the myths? All final decisions were made by “the body of the people,” and the people decided that the old regime must fall. In the fall of 1862, Native tribes in Minnesota waged war on white settlers out of frustration from starvation, mistreatment and harsh conditions.

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Most texts display one of the nineteenth century romantic paintings of Molly firing her cannon.

I checked the oldest (1924) U.S. history textbook, on my shelf - a volume designed for 8th graders. In 1621, Wampanoag Indians investigated gun and cannon fire at a Pilgrim settlement to see them celebrating a successful harvest. The point is that the mob had continuity and it acted as a group. The rugged individualist myth works better in the movies, whether he's the good guy or the bad guy.

When every author of a new history text book wants to put his special mark in he may jazz up a story or elaborate on a statistic.

Discussions of white conquest appear earlier and later in these texts, but not at the critical point of our nation’s founding, when it is most relevant but also most embarrassing. Maier uncovered ninety state and local “declarations of independence” that preceded the congressional document.

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