What Happened at Haymarket?
Unable to answer a simple question, labor historian Timothy Messer-Kruse does a little research, and discovers that textbooks can be misleading. I find it hard to excuse the academic laziness that preceded his epiphany, but appreciate the fact that he is now bringing the evidence to light. The true hero of this story is the girl who asked, "“if what it says in our textbook is true, that there was ‘no evidence whatsoever connecting them with the bombing,’ then what did they talk about in the courtroom for six weeks?”
2 comments:
Totally agree! It makes me glad Kiddo's only in elementary school now, since there's not quite as much "history" there yet. Although, there's still the Pledge, LOL... ;) At any rate, this article was quite cool/frustrating/unsurprising/shocking... that he was excoriated and then shunned is just... inexcusable for people trying to find "truth."
True. The sad thing is that this kind of thing is so common.
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