No wonder our children don't understand the thinking of the American War for Independence. Failure to understand the concepts of freedom as envisioned by those leaders is a primary assistance to the changing of America from a republic form of government to a socialistic democracy. Not knowing the background of the constitutional wording that was intended to guaranteed us a republican form of government, most students today would say we have a democracy. If you don't know the response of our founding fathers to that word, then you haven't read your history, you've been subjected to the rewriting of America's history. Buy some books from this site to learn the lessons you need to know if you're to understand true American history as our Founding Fathers wanted us to know.
Annals are good for mental review of history.
Annals serve well as outlines where stories need to be told that fill in the substance between events. Annals are lists of events, names, and dates. Annals do not teach history to a child. School text books today are much more like annals than history books. Just look at an old history book to see the great difference from todays.