Re: CHAT: University Advice (was Re: A bit of advice)

On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Cathy Whitlock wrote:

> jcowan@REUTERSHEALTH.COM writes:
>
> << Ah, but you omit Canada's rebellion against the United States:
>  the War of 1812.  (You won, we lost.) >>
>
> Funny, after a year of Canadian history, my teacher never mentioned that. It
> seemed like the book was selected American history regurgitated to make
> Canada sound like an American protogé. I don't think the teacher put much
> effort into finding a good book either. Its title was "Canada: A North
> American Nation"... I mean, if you can't come up with a better name than that
> for a book containing an entire nation's history, you are in serious
> imaginative trouble!
<wry g>  The U.S. history text we had suffered from the same problem, so
I went and read Zinn's _A People's History of the United States_ (fairly
good revisionist history) to compensate.  I never finished it because
then the AP's happened, and then it was summer break and the library was
closed.

YHL