I'm not sure if this is what that article is getting at but As a merry can, what I'm most puzzled about is that we didn't read much - if any - Federalist Papers or any writings like that surrounding the American Revolution, even in AP US History. And we read a lot of shit in APUSH. That was the most sterile, lifeless material I ever took in high school, and the only thing that made the class worthwhile was the animated and invested teacher, even if I didn't always agree with her. I do remember the discussion that if the Revolution was a failure, the leaders would be remembered as horrible traitors and killed. There's no need to make these men into saints, but we have other alternatives to forgetting about them. I swear, remembering our past better would clear up at least a third of the political idiocy going on in the USA today.
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As a merry can, what I'm most puzzled about is that we didn't read much - if any - Federalist Papers or any writings like that surrounding the American Revolution, even in AP US History. And we read a lot of shit in APUSH. That was the most sterile, lifeless material I ever took in high school, and the only thing that made the class worthwhile was the animated and invested teacher, even if I didn't always agree with her. I do remember the discussion that if the Revolution was a failure, the leaders would be remembered as horrible traitors and killed.
There's no need to make these men into saints, but we have other alternatives to forgetting about them. I swear, remembering our past better would clear up at least a third of the political idiocy going on in the USA today.