Talk:Statues

They also fought for the rights of the individual because only the individual is endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights. That was not only self evident but it was once hailed as the foundation of the American way.

One of the best history books I ever read was The United States 1492 to 1892 and it was just stories of people as individuals and their experiences. It was enlightening to know the whole story of individuals who were key players in steering the actions of larger societies. It is often not those who are appointed to power that steer the courses society might take.

It was the prolific Carl Sandburg that first gave me some understanding that the Civil War was not merely a conflict over slavery.

Are those who lived in the colonial era all evil. They correlate it to the destruction of statues of Hitler or Stalin and Lenin and justify that tearing down of symbols as if they have reached a more woke view of the world.