1. I was with a group of educators visiting China a few years back. In Beijing, we were in Tienneman Square… And our otherwise phenomenal native guide never mentioned the protests that not that long ago happened there! In discussions later, we couldn’t imagine his not knowing… But did he???

2. I’m reminded of the book, “Worlds in Collision” by Velikovsky (still available on Amazon – purchased to reread). It is a book many of us read for fun (honest… really did read for fun when I was a student at Lehigh 50+ years ago; a few years ago, we got parent comments about their daughter/son having their summer ruined because we asked them to read one contemporary book…). The Velikovsky book was a theory of history based upon the collected common happenings in the written stories of people all over the world. Am rereading because many of his predictions based on that theory (that people laughed at then) had been later found to be true; I’m interested in others tested only since space exploration…) Bottom line: We’ve got to continue to capture those stories; the history books are increasingly works of political perception – as you so clearly point out!!!

Thanks for such a thought provoking blog!!!