My favorite thing about the people complaining about the project is that like you, they all make it obvious they haven’t read any of it. But if the facts of American history erode your faith in the American experiment, it’s your commitment to liberty that is lacking.
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Yes, this is you affirming both that the study of history is useful solely in as much as it reaffirms your ideological priors, not for what it is or what it can teach us about our past, president or future, and that you didn’t read a word before passing judgement. So thanks.
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Nope. But i do appreciate your narrow range of put downs, your inability to defend your position on the merits, and your selective appreciation for the importance of historical study. I’ll enjoy it next time you invoke said history in one of your poorly written legal briefs.
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You’re not my enemy ilya. And there’s absolutely nothing I could say to you that would be more devastating or revealing than you, a self-proclaimed libertarian, proclaiming yourself uninterested in the history of the greatest conflict over liberty this nation has ever known.
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I'm all for examining history. But how did the preposterous claim that the American Revolution was motivated partly by fear that Britain would abolish slavery get past an editor?
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That's a contestable claim but not an absurd one. It's argued among other places in this book(which was praised by some top historians of colonial America):https://books.google.ca/books?id=Wa9eun5ElEgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Slave+Nation:+How+Slavery+United+The+Colonies+And+Sparked+The+American+Revolution,+by+Alfred+and+Ruth+Blumrosen.&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi8hfrmvo3kAhXEmq0KHZvWCg4Q6AEIKjAA#v=onepage&q&f=false …
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Replying to @HeerJeet @CathyYoung63 and
Isn't this pretty standard in studying Revolutionary war history from a British perspective? British historians also make the point that American colonists were angry about the religious freedom granted in the Quebec Act & the observance of treaties with Native Americans.
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Very mainstream among British historians, yes.
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