Don't Know Much About HistoryWho really discovered America? What was "the shot heard 'round the world"? Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: Did he or didn't he? From the arrival of Columbus through the bizarre election of 2000 and beyond, Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than 500 years of American history. In this updated edition of the classic anti-textbook, he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history. |
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... March 1493 after a troubled return trip. He was given a grand reception by Ferdi- nand and Isabella, even though he had little to show except some trin- kets and the Taino Indians who had survived the voyage back to Spain. But the ...
... March 1493 after a troubled return trip. He was given a grand reception by Ferdi- nand and Isabella, even though he had little to show except some trin- kets and the Taino Indians who had survived the voyage back to Spain. But the ...
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... march away , Columbus failed to pursue the possibility . He abandoned the quest for Asia , exhausted , and suffering from malaria , sailed to Jamaica . Starving and sick , Colum- bus here supposedly tricked the locals into giving him ...
... march away , Columbus failed to pursue the possibility . He abandoned the quest for Asia , exhausted , and suffering from malaria , sailed to Jamaica . Starving and sick , Colum- bus here supposedly tricked the locals into giving him ...
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... March, salvation came, much as it had in Virginia, in the form of Indians, including one named Squanto, who could speak English. Who Squanto was and how he came to speak English are among history's unsolved mysteries. One claim is made ...
... March, salvation came, much as it had in Virginia, in the form of Indians, including one named Squanto, who could speak English. Who Squanto was and how he came to speak English are among history's unsolved mysteries. One claim is made ...
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... March 1748 ( from The Diaries of George Washington ) : We got our Supper and was lighted into a Room and not being so good a Woodsman as ye rest of my Company stripped myself very orderly and went into ye bed as they called it when to ...
... March 1748 ( from The Diaries of George Washington ) : We got our Supper and was lighted into a Room and not being so good a Woodsman as ye rest of my Company stripped myself very orderly and went into ye bed as they called it when to ...
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... March 1770 , a group of ropemakers fought with a detachment of soldiers who were taking their jobs , and all around Boston , angry encounters between soldiers and citizens became more frequent . Tensions mounted until March 5 , when a ...
... March 1770 , a group of ropemakers fought with a detachment of soldiers who were taking their jobs , and all around Boston , angry encounters between soldiers and citizens became more frequent . Tensions mounted until March 5 , when a ...
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Page 605 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 453 - I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.
Page 434 - In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
Page 213 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction ; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
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Page 616 - If the Congress, within twentyone days after receipt of the latter written declaration, or, if Congress is not in session, within twenty-one days after Congress is required to assemble, determines by two-thirds vote of both Houses that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office...
Page 125 - It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean George Washington themselves as good citizens in giving it on all occasions their effectual support.