History

[one...two...tree 2,762]

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

A poll on history started by a guy who thinks the French Revolution had a large influence on our constitution (I will copy and paste the post if you ask me to, I saved it, it is a CLASSIC) when the French Revolution occurred years after our constituion was ratified.

I seriously wonder what your take on history is. But since you post a photo from the War Between the States...

What political party did Lincoln belong to?

Which political party supported slavery?

Which political party filibustered civil rights?

Should we learn from that...or forget it?

[Don and Venus 2]

What was the color of Custer's white horse?

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

What was the color of Custer's white horse?

Red after it took a round to the gut!

[Saddle Bronc 124]

It should be remembered and learned from.

[TBoneTX 43,326]

What was the color of Custer's white horse?

Who is buried in Grant's tomb?

[Obama 2012 1,714]

we should remember the good ole days when we weren't afraid to execute people for capital crimes.

[GabiandVi 34]

Remembered in context and with the understanding that, as the Soviet style communists would put it, people and parts of history can be "rehabilitated." The victor writes history, and in this age, often a person with an agenda rewrites it.

We can't forget history. We should definitely remember it, but it only to be learned from. I see it too often brought up as "proof" in the present.

As for Lincoln and the civil war, take a look at the Red River campaign to get an idea of what some significant underlying motivations for the war actually were, and then look at "reconstruction." It was evil and set progress back by decades if not centuries (in terms of many things including race relations.) These are aspects of our history that are almost always forgotten.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

we should remember the good ole days when we weren't afraid to execute people for capital crimes.

Because the 1930's were an excellent time in which to live

Edited June 20, 2010 by Its a MADHOUSE

[DanielParul 50]

Remembered

Yes

Female, foreigner

[dakay ♥ 10]

Remembered.

There can be no true understanding of the present without knowledge of the past.

[marklovetina 52]

FOR ME: remember the good one and forget the bad one...

yes agree we should learn from it...

done voting!!...

[almaty 19]

history at times can be rewritten...and in the end, allot of history these days is based on the writer's views,...just saying

[one...two...tree 2,762]

history at times can be rewritten...and in the end, allot of history these days is based on the writer's views,...just saying

Good point, brother.

[cartaverde 12]

A man or a woman who does not know or remember the past 3000 years of the history of the mankind is living from hand to mouth.

Yes, history should be remembered and learned from.

And not just from one or two history books while in school but after too.