History is studying the past and how it relates to the present and/or future (Class Notes). We use History in almost everything that we do. If we do not want to make the same mistakes as we did in the past we review our History. But there comes a time when we have to ask ourselves if the History we know is true or if it has been manipulated in some shape or form.
It is important to know exactly who is teaching us our History. In the United States our textbooks are created and reviewed by the Texas Board of Education (Class Notes). To be a member of the board you do not need to have a degree in History or English (Class Notes). Actually you do not even need to have a college degree at all! How can we allow someone who has no knowledge of History …show more content…
Each of these have been poorly portrayed in our History textbooks as well as in mainstream media. We have been taught that when Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims came to the new world they came for religious freedom and to share their values with others, but that is far from the truth. They actually came for Gold (Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress). When they reached the Americas, Columbus immediately incorporated slavery into their system. Using the Native Americans to search for Gold and giving back nothing in return (Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress). When landing in the Americas Columbus said “As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts” (Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress). With this quote it is not hard to see that Columbus was not seeking anything but control and power when he came to the Americas. This is not how Columbus is depicted in our History textbooks and classes though. We are taught that he came here with open arms and that the travel there was hard and treacherous. Yet that is the opposite. It has even been said that Columbus used young children, men and women as sex slaves (Class …show more content…
Our incentive to aspire to do more for our History is dulled down when the things we use as references for our incentive have been manipulated to make it sound like it was actually something good when it was actually something horribly wrong. We cannot use manipulated sources as examples for our country’s aspirations because those examples are inaccurate and were actually based on power, control and greed and not for the better of
It is important to know exactly who is teaching us our History. In the United States our textbooks are created and reviewed by the Texas Board of Education (Class Notes). To be a member of the board you do not need to have a degree in History or English (Class Notes). Actually you do not even need to have a college degree at all! How can we allow someone who has no knowledge of History …show more content…
Each of these have been poorly portrayed in our History textbooks as well as in mainstream media. We have been taught that when Christopher Columbus and the Pilgrims came to the new world they came for religious freedom and to share their values with others, but that is far from the truth. They actually came for Gold (Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress). When they reached the Americas, Columbus immediately incorporated slavery into their system. Using the Native Americans to search for Gold and giving back nothing in return (Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress). When landing in the Americas Columbus said “As soon as I arrived in the Indies, on the first Island which I found, I took some of the natives by force in order that they might learn and might give me information of whatever there is in these parts” (Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress). With this quote it is not hard to see that Columbus was not seeking anything but control and power when he came to the Americas. This is not how Columbus is depicted in our History textbooks and classes though. We are taught that he came here with open arms and that the travel there was hard and treacherous. Yet that is the opposite. It has even been said that Columbus used young children, men and women as sex slaves (Class …show more content…
Our incentive to aspire to do more for our History is dulled down when the things we use as references for our incentive have been manipulated to make it sound like it was actually something good when it was actually something horribly wrong. We cannot use manipulated sources as examples for our country’s aspirations because those examples are inaccurate and were actually based on power, control and greed and not for the better of