wombat_socho

Unfortunately, because of the crappy way history is taught in our schools, the way most people get their history knowledge (if they get any at all) is through popular culture. Stephen Ambrose was thoroughly hated within the academy because he was accurate and readable (oh, and a specialist in military history, which is a ghetto in history departments to start with) and I daresay Bruce Catton and Samuel E. Morison would have caught the same flak had they lived long enough.

So if you have people out there criticizing history as if it was fiction, as these people do, then I figure they deserve all the shit I can fling at them. They're polluting the information stream, damn them!