I’m in my 40’s, reading history for my own enjoyment, and I’m still learning things that were deliberately withheld from me, like how the American revolutionaries turned the guns on their own people opposing unfair taxation when they now in power (Whiskey Rebellion), or Tulsa, or the Battle of Blair Mountain, or how Columbus literally wrote in his journal that he wanted to steal all of the native people’s shit after encountering them the first time and realizing how friendly they are.
To actually learn history requires concerted effort.
Absolutely.
I’m in my 40’s, reading history for my own enjoyment, and I’m still learning things that were deliberately withheld from me, like how the American revolutionaries turned the guns on their own people opposing unfair taxation when they now in power (Whiskey Rebellion), or Tulsa, or the Battle of Blair Mountain, or how Columbus literally wrote in his journal that he wanted to steal all of the native people’s shit after encountering them the first time and realizing how friendly they are.
To actually learn history requires concerted effort.
I would like to learn more
A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn is a good starting point.
What’s really interesting is that Columbus’ journal may have been lost to history but for Bartoleme De Las Casas making a copy of it by hand.