All The History You Need To Know

Mark Shea:

Almost anything would be better than the cartoonish creation myth that exists in the minds of most Americans--assuming they've ever heard of the Reformation, which is no sure be in our historically illiterate culture. Many postmoderns only know "Something something noble pagans and mysterious Egyptians who might have had contact with aliens, then GreeksnRomans, then the Dark Ages and Christians persecuting womynhealers, then people in wigs, then America when George Washington fought the Civil War, then oppression of Black folk and Indians, then WWI and II, then I WAS BORN AND HISTORY TRULY BEGAN. After that, it's a chronicle of the changing moods and feelings of the chronicler as he learned how much smarter and better he was than all those dumb people who lived a long time ago.