tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24731384.post7435755335837950096..comments2023-04-16T05:43:18.780-07:00Comments on Who Said Pixies Are Rational Creatures?: Champlain and New France - Rough DraftSha'el, Princess of Pixieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14049854555801812071noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24731384.post-83185066496094373132015-07-18T07:45:55.837-07:002015-07-18T07:45:55.837-07:00Very interesting.
Very interesting.<br />robertohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11843606659835397724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24731384.post-9553149346465487432015-07-17T15:31:20.081-07:002015-07-17T15:31:20.081-07:00Well, this is a semi-sanitized history. Because it...Well, this is a semi-sanitized history. Because it is for young ones from diverse backgrounds, some things won't be considered in detail. But we can't escape and don't want to ignore the role ethnicity played in the development of America. In fact, the non-English settlers established the post Revolution American personality. American's were antithetic toward England. There was a strong Scots and Irish presence here, few of whom liked England. The so-called 'special relationship' didn't exist until World War 2, and then only because the Roosevelt was an anglophile. We almost went to war with the UK in the mid 1930s. We had cause to, probably should have. The rise of Hitler changed that.<br /><br />In the colonial era, largely ignored by text book writers, there was an influx of non-English people, Germans, Central Europeans, French protestants. These helped develop America's personality. An example would be the German-Dutch families who settled in the Carolinas and who pushed into the frontier areas in the mid to late 1700s. These were families who had both Dutch and German ancestry, and who felt free to ignore the English government's prohibition on settlement in those areas. Sha'el, Princess of Pixieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14049854555801812071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24731384.post-32864171009249891752015-07-17T15:10:55.640-07:002015-07-17T15:10:55.640-07:00I'm simply curious how forward the data goes o...I'm simply curious how forward the data goes or if you leave that type of analysis for books on that later time period.<br /><br />It is a major topic that I did not see presented (as a student of WA public schools) until I did my own research in my thirties.<br /><br />Lucas Darrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01405530729663443670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24731384.post-6918086419665232482015-07-17T14:14:39.800-07:002015-07-17T14:14:39.800-07:00Several WA schools similar to ours are dissatisfie...Several WA schools similar to ours are dissatisfied with the textbooks that cover the period. They're sanitized, boring and inaccurate. We can do better on our own.Sha'el, Princess of Pixieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14049854555801812071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24731384.post-36597804237802543602015-07-17T14:12:51.852-07:002015-07-17T14:12:51.852-07:00This book ends with the Constitutional Convention....This book ends with the Constitutional Convention. Plan is to write another next year that takes the story up to the Civil War. The classes are Colonial History I-II 4-6 Gifted, and same for 6-8 American Lit and History.Sha'el, Princess of Pixieshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14049854555801812071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24731384.post-17277529315518238752015-07-17T14:06:52.671-07:002015-07-17T14:06:52.671-07:00I am curious--at the end of your history book will...I am curious--at the end of your history book will you set the stage for the America Civil War with commentary on how colonial immigration ethnicity directly impacted who went to war with whom?Lucas Darrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01405530729663443670noreply@blogger.com