Gabriel_Bell
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Yeah, the excellent schools of the Jim Crow South always taught the truth.I also believe I was taught accurate history in public schools.
Hell, I attended public schools in NW Missouri.
One thing that I learned was that in my county, Abraham Lincoln did not get even one vote in the 1860 presidential election, which was true.
But my history teacher did not tell us why this was so, which was that Lincoln's name was not even on the ballots. Only Constitutional Unionist Bell, Southern Democrat Breckenridge, and Northern Democrat Douglas were on the ballot.
The year that I took American History in high school, my father got a meta detector, and he and I spent a lot of time searching around the stations of an interurban railroad that went broke during the depression and Civil War skirmishes in our country and two others. We found lots of railway tokens, nickels, pennies and dimes, what are called "minnie balls" and other ammo and such. My history teacher was not interested when I brought some of thee things to class. We were not allowed to ask questions in class: she asked the question and anything other than answering her questions as she wanted them answered resulted in her grabbing the offending student by the ear and twisting it. She had sharp nails.
Our American History class textbook in 1958 covered the period up to the end of WWII. But our class only got as far as the end of the Woodrow Wilson administration. And it was not mentioned at all that Wilson was incapable of serving in any office after October 1919, wen he suffered a stoke, that paralyzed half his body.
I learned tons of history from my father, who revived a county historical association and later a county museum.
