U.s. Founding fathers

[leo9]

Maybe the truth is not to be found in school text books (either American or British).

One of my first lessons in scepticism.

My mother spent WW2 at college in America, so when my history class got around to the American Revolution, she helpfully lent me her old textbooks. Reading them side by side with the school's British texts was illuminating... an unexpected lesson in how the same facts can be given completely opposite spins.

[Thorne]

One of my first lessons in scepticism.

I learned the same lesson, a long time ago. Back in the dark ages, before the Internet, I had a history teacher assign a lesson for our study of the American Revolution. Our public library had copies of both the Encyclopedia Americana and the Encyclopedia Britannica. We had to use both sources for a short paper about, I think, the Boston Tea Party. Turns out the lesson was more about being aware of your sources than the Revolution.