| Tango01 | 28 Apr 2020 10:16 p.m. PST |
"Centuries of European domination of North and South America began to erode and eventually mostly disappear when a courageous group of English subjects signed their names to a proclamation written by Virginia slave-owner Thomas Jefferson on the 4th of July 1776. The world would change forever when that declaration was signed…" Main page
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| Brechtel198 | 29 Apr 2020 4:06 a.m. PST |
The only problem with the article is that it was the Spanish that aided the newly-minted United States, not the Mexicans. Seems to me that there is an agenda here and not merely semantics. 
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| Prince Alberts Revenge | 29 Apr 2020 4:22 a.m. PST |
Don't know Hanson or Huntington but this article is drivel with a political bias. The authors shape and shoehorn their rehashing of history-telling to fit their agenda is pretty obvious. |
| Brechtel198 | 29 Apr 2020 4:45 a.m. PST |
Agree-you are absolutely correct-well said. |
robert piepenbrink  | 29 Apr 2020 7:03 a.m. PST |
Drivel indeed. And character assassination in the bargain when he discusses Hanson and Huntington. Good call, Brechtel. |
| doc mcb | 29 Apr 2020 8:19 a.m. PST |
Galvez certainly contributed to American Independence, but why "Mexican" and not Spanish? |
| Brechtel198 | 29 Apr 2020 10:00 a.m. PST |
I know little or nothing about Huntingdon. But I do not consider Hanson a good historian. He should stick to the Greeks. |
| doc mcb | 29 Apr 2020 10:29 a.m. PST |
Wow! I think VDH is awesome. Is it just his politics? or what? |
| Brechtel198 | 29 Apr 2020 1:41 p.m. PST |
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| Historydude18 | 29 Apr 2020 1:51 p.m. PST |
Seeing how Mexico did not become independent until 1821, I fail to see how Mexicans helped the USA win independence during 1776-1781. |
| doc mcb | 29 Apr 2020 3:28 p.m. PST |
Kevin, what objections do you have to VDH's work? |
| Brechtel198 | 29 Apr 2020 5:16 p.m. PST |
I fail to see how Mexicans helped the USA win independence during 1776-1781. They didn't. The Spanish did as well as the French. |
| Tango01 | 30 Apr 2020 12:55 p.m. PST |
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| Virginia Tory | 12 May 2020 12:14 p.m. PST |
That article is all over the map and is more a political screed than anything else. >But I do not consider Hanson a good historian. He should stick to the Greeks. His history is fine--there's a distinction to be made between his more political columns and his actual published history, which is very good for the most part. |
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