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| Source:Learning Liftoff- our Founding Fathers (our Founding Liberals) |
"We’ve compiled a great list of films that span American history from the formation of the colonies to the conclusion of the Cold War. Each article includes several films and their educational value, ratings, and appropriateness for children, and how well they represent the time periods covered. You can view the trailers for each film listed, as well as find where you can view the films, whether it be Netflix, or Youtube, or other media outlets."
From Learning Liftoff
"The history of the United States started with the arrival of Native Americans in North America around 15,000 BC. Numerous indigenous cultures formed, and many disappeared in the 1500s. The arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492 started the European colonization of the Americas. Most colonies were formed after 1600, and the United States was the first nation whose most distant origins are fully recorded.[a] By the 1760s, the thirteen British colonies contained 2.5 million people along the Atlantic Coast east of the Appalachian Mountains. After defeating France, the British government imposed a series of taxes, including the Stamp Act of 1765, rejecting the colonists' constitutional argument that new taxes needed their approval. Resistance to these taxes, especially the Boston Tea Party in 1773, led to Parliament issuing punitive laws designed to end self-government. Armed conflict began in Massachusetts in 1775. In 1776, in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress declared the independence of the colonies as the "United States". Led by General George Washington, it won the Revolutionary War. The peace treaty of 1783 established the borders of the new nation. The Articles of Confederation established a central government, but it was ineffectual at providing stability as it could not collect taxes and had no executive officer. A convention wrote a new Constitution that was adopted in 1789 and a Bill of Rights was added in 1791 to guarantee inalienable rights. With Washington as the first president and Alexander Hamilton his chief adviser, a strong central government was created. Purchase of the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803 doubled the size of the United States."
From Wikipedia
The great Irish-Conservative philosopher Edmond Burke once brilliantly said: "Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.” And what that means is people who don't learn from the past, especially the mistakes that are made in the past, are doomed to repeat those same mistakes in the future.
A huge reason why American history is do important to every single America (whether they're aware of it or not) is because if we don't learn from our history. we're doomed to make the same mistakes as the Americans who came before us, but we'll also not know what worked in the past and be able to see if that could work now.
Not to pick on any particular group of Americans or generation (ha, ha) but your average Millennial probably sees American history as just a bunch of old people (and left-wing Millennial's as a bunch of old White people) that has nothing to do with the here and now. And your average Millennial is all about the here and now. And to them the I-phone from last year (or last month) is probably like ancient history to them.
But for people who remember when a cup of coffee wasn't a life-changing moment for anyone and when a cell phone didn't totally change their way of life, who remember a least decade of the 20th Century when they were growing up, American history is not just very important to them, but they're fascinated by it, because they pay the taxes that keeps our government running and want to know how they hard-earned tax dollars are being spent.
American history is like a free education for anyone who wants to know what life was like before they were around or were adults and gives them the opportunity to know what worked and what didn't work in the past. And there for anyone at anytime (especially in the era of new technology) to always learn from to make themselves and the world around for them better. All you have to do to get that education is just be a little curious and care about things and people other than yourself.
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