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A History of the United States by Philip Jenkins

rcsreads's review against another edition

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1.0

I'm giving up on this. It's like whitewashing history 101.
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He says at the start "we should refer to them as native American" and then proceeds to call them Indian for the rest of the book. Also the Indian's "move" a lot. As though they just gave up land to white settlers in order to be nice!
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Then there's the slavery section which is 3 pages long. It basically goes, while slavery was a problem there was a large number of free Black people. We'll that's alright then!
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The author seems to really idolise General Lee as well.
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You can totally see how racism gets entrenched into the education system when these have been your basic, undergraduate, history books.

emma_kj's review against another edition

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3.0

Read for uni.

half_bloodreader's review against another edition

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College reads: I only read chapters/sections relevant to my studies, hence the dnf
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