Review: America's Forgotten History, Part 1, Foundations by Mark David Ledbetter
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 6, 2013
America’s Forgotten History questions the standard understanding from a constitutionalist point of view of how our history is written.  The Living write history, but do the victors in America’s forgotten debate really have it right?  If you are reviewing the textbooks of our new history writers, the can and do rewrite it for their own purposes.  If you wonder what I mean, acquire a high school US History text from the 60's and one put out in the last 5 years.  Read them and don't just take some mental notes, but compare them on coverage of each episode of our United States History.  It will surprise you how much revisionist history is written into today's texts and this is a disservice to our young students.This, the first of five volumes, looks at the English Civil War, fought between Puritans and Cavaliers. It then follows Puritans as they flee Cavalier power to Massachusetts and later Cavaliers as they flee Puritan power to Virginia. Puritans and Cavaliers allied against the mercantilism of England to form a new system based on the Magna-Carta, the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the English Bill of Rights, and the Enlightenment philosophy of Locke and Montesquieu.I took the last few sentences from the book's description, so I will not claim it for my review, just as descriptive information of what is found in this book, which has information not shared in the newer textbooks of our country's history. All of this information will be there for you to compare to what is written today and if you choose to, the other more thorough texts out there in our libraries.  This is a good read and as accurate as one would want history to be.