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| 8c480d7 | On a quiet day, when the wind was still, the creek could be heard all the way up to where the old beech stood. Under its branches, cats would come to dream and be dreamed. | cats circle dreams | Charles de Lint | |
| c5b21d2 | Change wasn't necessarily bad. It was just scary. | Charles de Lint | ||
| 13d8bb0 | On a quiet day, when the wind was still, the creek could be heard all the way up to where the old beech stood. Under its branches, cats would come to dream and be dreamed. Black cats and calicos, white cats and marmalade ones, too. But they hadn't yet gathered on the day the orphan girl fell asleep among its roots, nestling in the weeds and long grass like the gangly, tousle-haired girl she was. Her name was Lillian. | cats circle dreams roots | Charles de Lint | |
| 0d35c8e | On a quiet day, when the wind was still, the creek could be heard all the way up to where the old beech stood. Under its branches, cats would come to dream and be dreamed. Black cats and calicos, white cats and marmalade ones, too. Sometimes they exchanged gossip or told stories about L'il Pater, the trickster cat. More often they lay in a drowsy circle around the fat trunk of the ancient beech that spread its boughs above them. Then one of.. | cats circle dreams father-of-cats tousle-haired | Charles de Lint | |
| 9b69f88 | She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all. | fancy girls possum wandering woods | Charles de Lint | |
| 789b4f6 | Many sundown towns had not a single black household as late as the 2000 census, and some still openly exclude to this day. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 344fb6f | She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all. (This text is originally from A Circle of Cats, which was revised and re-adapted by the author for The Cats of Tanglewood Fore.. | fancy girls possum wandering woods | Charles de Lint | |
| 186e77f | I don't like feeling lonely... but in solitude one can get to revalue many things. | Alejandro Fernández | ||
| a519105 | Not only do textbooks fail to blame the federal government for its opposition to the civil rights movement, many actually credit the government, almost single-handedly, for the advances made during the period. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 6c08625 | Our goal must be to help students uncover the past rather than cover it. Instead of "teaching the book," teachers must develop a list of 30-50 topics they want to teach in their U.S. history course. Every topic should excite or at least interest them. What meaning might it have to students' lives?" | James W. Loewen | ||
| e337fb8 | K-12 teachers. Many work in classrooms for as many as thirty-five hours a week; on top of that they must assign, read, and comment on homework, prepare and grade exams, and develop next week's lesson plans. | James W. Loewen | ||
| a1051f1 | Baptist minister and inventor Burrell Cannon (1848-1922) led some Pittsburg investors to establish the Ezekiel Airship Company and build a craft described in the Biblical book of Ezekiel. The ship had large fabric-covered wings powered by an engine that turned four sets of paddles. It was built in a nearby machine shop and was briefly airborne at this site late in 1902, a year before the Wright brothers first flew. Enroute to the St. Louis .. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 68dd722 | The Civil War had been about something other than states' rights after all. It began as a war to force or prevent the breakup of the United States. | James W. Loewen | ||
| b583fad | History textbooks still present Union and Confederate sympathizers as equally idealistic. The North fought to hold the Union together, while the South fought, according to 'The American Way', 'for the preservation of their rights and the freedom to decide for themselves'. Nobody fought to preserve racial slavery; nobody fought to end it. As one result, unlike the Nazi swastika, which lies disgraced, even in the North whites still proudly di.. | James W. Loewen | ||
| dfb94f2 | Another result of the War of 1812 was the loss of part of our history. As historian Bruce Johansen put it, "A century of learning [from Native Americans] was coming to a close. A century and more of forgetting--of calling history into service to rationalize conquest--was beginning." After 1815 American Indians could no longer play what sociologists call the role of conflict partner--an important other who must be taken into account--so Amer.. | forgetting important-other | James W. Loewen | |
| 1371011 | Rethinking Our Past: Recognizing Facts, Fiction, and Lies in American History Social Science in the Courtroom | James W. Loewen | ||
| 780d64a | Since the alternatives to war remain roads largely not taken in the United States, however, they are tricky subjects for historians. As Edward Carr notes, "History is, by and large, a record of what people did, not what people failed to do." On the other hand, making the present seem inevitable robs history of all its life and much of its meaning. History is contingent on the actions of people." | James W. Loewen | ||
| 7290c4c | Students exit history textbooks without having developed the ability to think coherently about social life. Even | James W. Loewen | ||
| 6926d11 | Other lakes get similar treatment. According to Michigan markers, whites discovered Lake Michigan, Lake St. Clair, and Lake Superior. Lake Erie gets a more complex marker: "Named for the Erie Indians, this was the last of the Great Lakes discovered by white men..." Actually, none of them was discovered by white men, but this marker at least admits that Native Americans existed and implies they knew of Lake Erie." | James W. Loewen | ||
| f2674e8 | As a symbol of the new United States, Americans chose the eagle clutching a bundle of arrows. They knew that both the eagle and the arrows were symbols of the Iroquois League. Although one arrow is easily broken, no one can break six (or thirteen) at once. John | James W. Loewen | ||
| 0a53604 | I don't know, I think that the eyes, I like eyes very much. | Alejandro Fernández | ||
| 87d4501 | Oh dear God, one misses the land when is far away. | Alejandro Fernández | ||
| 5b9e1bd | Ironically, societies characterized by a complex division of labor are often marked by inequality and support large specialized armies. Precisely these "civilized" societies are likely to resort to savage violence in their attempts to conquer "primitive" societies.22" | James W. Loewen | ||
| 80085a0 | Hitler admired our concentration camps for American Indians in the west and according to John Toland, his biographer, "often praised to his inner circle the efficiency of America's extermination--by starvation and uneven combat" as the model for his extermination of Jews and Gypsies (Rom people)." | James W. Loewen | ||
| fbe2dca | When you see a roadside marker, take in what it tells but also ask, how might this be wrong? One giveaway is the use of qualifying phrases introducing statements of fact, as in: "According to tradition..." or "According to the legislature..." Visitors can count on the rest of such sentences to be unsubstantiated." | James W. Loewen | ||
| 67d3a42 | Indian history is the antidote to the pious ethnocentrism of American exceptionalism, the notion that European Americans are God's chosen people. Indian history reveals that the United States and its predecessor British colonies have wrought great harm in the world. We must not forget this--not to wallow in our wrongdoing, but to understand and to learn, that we might not wreak harm again. We must temper our national pride with critical sel.. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 5f28885 | The actual cabin fell into disrepair probably before Lincoln became president. According to research by D. T. Pitcaithley, the new cabin, a hoax built in 1894, was leased to two amusement park owners, went to Coney Island, where it got commingled with the birthplace cabin of Jefferson Davis (another hoax), and was finally shrunk to fit inside a marble pantheon in Kentucky, where, reassembled, it still stands. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 30a0f74 | History, despite its wrenching pain, Cannot be unlived, and if faced With courage, need not be lived again. --MAYA ANGELOU | James W. Loewen | ||
| e1de391 | Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. --ABRAHAM LINCOLN1 | James W. Loewen | ||
| ea03261 | In the 1740s the Iroquois wearied of dealing with several often bickering English colonies and suggested that the colonies form a union similar to the league. In 1754 Benjamin Franklin, who had spent much time among the Iroquois observing their deliberations, pleaded with colonial leaders to consider his Albany Plan of Union: "It would be a strange thing if six nations of ignorant savages should be capable of forming a scheme for such a uni.. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 85fac60 | The first panel misquotes the preamble and conclusion of the Declaration of Independence, leaving out five words from within its selected excerpts. The architect requested the omissions so the text would fit better! Surely this memorable text should not be altered for so petty a reason. We know Jefferson would not approve, for whenever he sent correspondents a copy of the Declaration he took pains to show what the Continental Congress had a.. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 273ccad | We jettisoned our medical practices of the 1780s while retaining the Constitution. But Native American medicinal practitioners who abandon their traditional ways to embrace pasteurization from France and antibiotics from England are seen as compromising their Indian-ness. We can alter our modes of transportation or housing while remaining "American". Indians cannot and stay "Indian" in our eyes." -- | James W. Loewen | ||
| eabfb24 | Surely the desired end product of high school U.S. history courses is graduates who can think clearly, distinguish evidence from opinion, and separate truth from what comedian Stephen Colbert famously called "truthiness." | James W. Loewen | ||
| 2ff6065 | Critical thinking requires assembling data to back up one's opinion. Otherwise students may falsely conclude that all opinions are somehow equal. | James W. Loewen | ||
| cf2603a | Patriotism can flourish only where racism and nationalism are given no quarter. We should never mistake patriotism for nationalism. A patriot is one who loves his homeland. A nationalist is one who scorns the homelands of others. --JOHANNES RAU | James W. Loewen | ||
| dc7938c | Official state historical markers form a smaller population, and early in my research I determined to read all of them. Texas dissuaded me. The Lone Star state has more state historical markers--nearly twelve thousand--than the rest of the United States put together. To read and digest one marker per minute would require 200 hours--five full weeks in the Texas office. At the other end of the spectrum is Maine, whose assistant director of hi.. | James W. Loewen | ||
| c0fc3a3 | Well, I am so far, and you put me a bottle of tequila here. | Alejandro Fernández | ||
| cce8f84 | When students are not asked to assess, but only to remember, they do not learn how to assess or how to think for themselves. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 6d30dde | People have a right to their own opinions, but not to their own facts. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 4b6bc74 | repression of white ethnic groups; again, most textbooks blame the people, | James W. Loewen | ||
| 2f724f1 | A generic National Park Service (NPS) brochure promises children, "Hidden within each national park is an exciting story waiting to be discovered. Learning the secrets of each national park is easy. Simply ask your teacher or Park Ranger..." This won't work at Hampton, an estate built just after the Revolutionary War and located just north of the beltway that circles Baltimore. The staff at Hampton insists it has no story to tell and merely.. | James W. Loewen | ||
| 418cbd5 | History through red eyes offers our children a deeper understanding than comes from encountering the past as a story of inevitable triumph by the good guys. | James W. Loewen | ||
| f222cd8 | People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant." | James W. Loewen | ||
| bb3a511 | Socialization is not primarily cognitive. We are not persuaded rationally not to pee in the living room; we are not to. We then rationalize and obey this rule even when no authority figure lurks to enforce it. | James W Loewen |