While I was an undergraduate at Louisiana State University in the early 1970s, I was fortunate to take a class on Black History - the first time it was offered - and read works by John Hope Franklin and Carter Woodson. It was eye-opening and refreshing and it scraped off the whitewash I had been fed in 12 years of Southern elementary and secondary school.
That's great, Don! Two great historians, right there. I think we've continued to make strides, despite nonsense from non-historians on the left as well as the right (don't get me started on the NYT's 1619 Project, a distraction that backfired) (I will write about it!)
While I was an undergraduate at Louisiana State University in the early 1970s, I was fortunate to take a class on Black History - the first time it was offered - and read works by John Hope Franklin and Carter Woodson. It was eye-opening and refreshing and it scraped off the whitewash I had been fed in 12 years of Southern elementary and secondary school.
That's great, Don! Two great historians, right there. I think we've continued to make strides, despite nonsense from non-historians on the left as well as the right (don't get me started on the NYT's 1619 Project, a distraction that backfired) (I will write about it!)