Don't Know Much About History [30th Anniversary Edition]: Everything You Need to Know About American History but Never LearnedHarperCollins, 2020 M11 3 - 752 pages A New York Times bestseller · More than 1.7 Million Copies Sold! “Reading Davis is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had!” —People magazine From the arrival of Columbus through the historic election of Barack Obama and beyond, Kenneth C. Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through more than five hundred years of American history. In this 30th anniversary edition of the classic anti-textbook—which includes a new preface by Davis—he debunks, recounts, and serves up the real story behind the myths and fallacies of American history. |
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... City. Although I don't remember much of what I said, I do remember that as soon as I was finished, my teacher humiliated me. I can't recall her exact words, but she dressed me down in front of my classmates. She told me that I had taken ...
... City. Although I don't remember much of what I said, I do remember that as soon as I was finished, my teacher humiliated me. I can't recall her exact words, but she dressed me down in front of my classmates. She told me that I had taken ...
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... City) or the practices of the Iroquois, who had raised torture of captured opponents to a sophisticated but ghastly art. During the past few decades, estimates of the Indian population at the time of Columbus's arrival have undergone a ...
... City) or the practices of the Iroquois, who had raised torture of captured opponents to a sophisticated but ghastly art. During the past few decades, estimates of the Indian population at the time of Columbus's arrival have undergone a ...
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... City). Thought to be the returning Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, Cortés captures Emperor Montezuma, beginning the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico. His triumph leads to 300 years of Spanish domination of Mexico and Central America ...
... City). Thought to be the returning Aztec god Quetzalcoatl, Cortés captures Emperor Montezuma, beginning the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico. His triumph leads to 300 years of Spanish domination of Mexico and Central America ...
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... City. 1565 St. Augustine, the oldest permanent settlement established by Europeans in the United States, is founded by Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Aviles. A colony of French Protestants, or Huguenots, had established a colony in Florida ...
... City. 1565 St. Augustine, the oldest permanent settlement established by Europeans in the United States, is founded by Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Aviles. A colony of French Protestants, or Huguenots, had established a colony in Florida ...
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... city. (In 1635, English High and Latin School, the first secondary school in America, is founded. The following year a college for the training of clergymen is founded at Cambridge and named Harvard after a benefactor in 1639.) 1634 Two ...
... city. (In 1635, English High and Latin School, the first secondary school in America, is founded. The following year a college for the training of clergymen is founded at Cambridge and named Harvard after a benefactor in 1639.) 1634 Two ...
Contents
Jane Roe sue Wade? | |
From the Evil Empire to the Axis of Evil | |
Authors Note | |
Acknowledgments | |
Is the Electoral College a Party School? A Presidential Election Primer | |
Index | |
About the Author | |
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