Lessons From History Biographies

  Many people’s entire perception of American History needs to be radically reconsidered.             In the America of 2025, history wars have taken an unusual position front and center in the world of American politics, partly because our current administration has sold a specific view of American history—the story of a great nation, founded by good moral Christian pioneers, who conquered and civilized a continent and in the modern world are in a never-ending battle with modern forces to protect proper American values. How that view pertains to eras such as the American Civil War are another matter altogether, but specifically for the purposes of this reading it has put the Trump administration in an interesting position given its historical view of the American Indian nations, such as when they argued that the soldiers who participated in the Wounded Knee “battle” (often considered more of a massacre) were heroes deserving...