Best History By A Non-Historian!
I recently watch Ken Burns' wonderful documentary Civil War. It featured novelist-cum-historian Shelby Foote (now deceased). His three-volume, 1.5 million word long history, The Civil War, is thought to be the best account of the US civil war by a non-academic historian.
Does anyone else know of any other such claim in any other area of history?
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Whitney Webb's investigative review of the US imperialism and the influence of the CIA.
There's no point in learning about history, because it's written by the winners of the war.
If Russia wins the war, Russian children will grow up learning about how the Ukrainians were Nazis seeking to get their hands on nuclear weapons, in government run schools.
If Germany won World War 2, we would all grow up believing that the Holocaust was a necessary evil, to give rise to a master race.
North Koreans grow up believing that their country cured aids and invented the hamburger.
We grow up learn
