I intend to write and promote a New American History particularly for use in Florida high schools with a focus on the undercarriage of the society and system, not how it was styled, promoted and propagandized. Therefore it will be a bit of a black view, since blacks were mostly and effectively an enforced underclass the whole time. The usual divisions into eras or administrations will be discarded because these are a reflection of how participants and their descendants chose to view themselves.
The new eras or epochs will be:
1. America Under Slavery
2. America Under Apartheid
3. The Second Civil War
4. The Confederate Age
This applies only partially in the North, I know, but since the South has finally won the battle for control of the country it captures a trajectory. So my history will complement the honest analyses out there and correct the kind of rubbish and bullshit being enforced in the classroom in states (like Florida) where the new, reborn Confederacy is ascendant, controlling and assertive. In places where they are formally and deliberately teaching lies, in other words, and systematically indoctrinating children.
The 'Confederate Age' is in its infancy and the date of the victory of the South in the war to enshrine injustice and bigotry as the 'American Way' uncertain but the subject must be raised. The discussions generated will be more instructional and informative because of this uncertainty. This is history in the making at a time when democratic institutions are crumbling and besieged. For the fist time, the whole country is being possibly remade under another regime and the 'rule of law' challenged.
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