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Originally posted by ETeachCouple of things I'd recommend.
Would be interesting to look at other countries history books and compare to our own. How much of each is truth or fiction? For instance, How is the Revolutionary War treated in England? I'm a big history nut and just curious.....
1. History books by Howard Zinn. He researches history as experienced by the little people rather than relying on the corporation influenced propoganda that is thought in schools.
2. A trip to Vietnam is absolutely fascinating. Cambodia also. If you can't quite make it to those places, I'd recommend a book written by VC Bao Ninh called the Sorrow of War, which is banned in Vietnam. As some movies have portrayed the confused mind of Vietnam vets, this does the same for ex VC. Excellent read. By the way, something that I was a bit surprised by, but I shouldn't really have been, the Vietnam War is known as the American War in Vietnam.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/074939711X/qid=1113498795/sr=8-2/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i2_xgl/202-6114498-3592651
Hope this helps,
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Originally posted by orkyboyI did American history at A level in Essex. The coverage of the war was completely unbiased. I cant remeber the book we used, but I came out in favour of the republic, possibly because I was excited by the story the emerging nation of U.S.A. and it's personalities. Also I lived in the US for a few years as a child so I have more sympathy towards that country than a lot of my often unjustifiably prejudiced compatriots
In England we are not taught anything about the Revolutionary War. We do Medieval Times, Renassience (briefly), the Tudors (1500-1600 period), then the Stuarts (straight after Tudors), the English Civil war, then we miss out a nice 200 or so years, conviently missing out wars that England lost, then we do late 1800's (very briefly) then the 20th century (ba ...[text shortened]... lly WW1 and WW2). The for GCSE (at my school) you usually do projects on either Russia or China.