Anne,
No self-respecting historian would use Wikipedia as a legitimate source.
You need to go to graduate school and learn about historiography and the
methodology of writing history. Your research methods are lacking. My 11th
grade students know not to use Wikipedia.
Cynthia Hasley
In a message dated 11/13/2008 11:45:23 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Tom,
A friend made a new blog and asked me to try is out. My first entry was an
examination of what should be taught to children in elementary and secondary
school about those people who live good lives and then do one bad thing vs
those who live a bad life and do one or two good things. (Nat Turner the
former and John Paul Joes the later). The friend who asked me to do the blog
responded with the suggestion that I include another site for "Infamous
Americans" and put those questionable people under that heading.
Maybe that is the solution to the problem. Include those with infamous
activities in their lives on the Infamous Americans site perhaps with a
cross link to where they are included under the Famous Americans.
I need to mull this over for a bit to make a decision to have a parallel
site. It will take a lot of work to round up enough Infamous Americans to
make the site worth visiting. And, I have other things on my plate including
coding math sheets for random numbers and more universal applications.
Usually I do one or two Famous Americans every month or so. So if I start
it, it will not be overwhelming to begin with, but a small start with a few
people, like John Paul Jones, Jefferson Davis, Harry Byrd, and Nat Turner,
all of whom did some good in their lives, but did the bad as well.
Anne Pemberton
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http://www.educationalsynthesis.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Excalibur131" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: And Now Nat Turner
> Would Nat Turner be a "Famous American" or an "Infamous American?"
>
> Was Nat Turner a "Famous American" or "Infamous American" at all,
> considering his only qualification was his methodical slaughter of white
> civilians during the uprising?
>
> Tom
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