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It's 1900 or so, and I'm a "proper," accredited historian with a thorough education and an extensive knowledge of the sources available to me. What's the biggest misconception I have about the past, from a modern perspective?
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It's the mid-1800s, and I'm a middle-class, white New Englander. How much do I know about the ongoing genocide on the frontier? Have I heard about the massacres and deportations, or do I just know vague, Karl May-esque cliches about brave pioneers fighting savage indians?
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We stared up at it, watching the teeth dig in, the dark mass spread, rootlike, over its meal, and for a moment we imagined that we might be able to stop it.
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It's the mid-1800s, and I'm a middle-class, white New Englander. How much do I know about the ongoing genocide on the frontier? Have I heard about the massacres and deportations, or do I just know vague, Karl May-esque cliches about brave pioneers fighting savage indians?
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Do all domestic animals of a particular species have a common ancestor, or were there multiple domestications in prehistory?
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At the turn of the previous century, the default black stereotype was of a shiftless, dim-witted gambler with a thing for fried chicken and watermelon. A hundred years later, the laziness and stupidity are there, as is the food--but what happened to gambling?
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