Conventional Wisdom: Selected Quotations Illustrating the Illusions of Popular History

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http://nickel.ucs.indiana.edu/~mtmurphy/cw.html

This set of quotations debunks popular notions about history and society. Among the subjects are The Fall of the Roman Empire, Columbus and the Spanish Conquest, Pocahontas, Our Founding Fathers, A Day That Will Live in Infamy, Lucky Lindy, and The March of Science. For example, the page's author uses Abraham Lincoln's own quotations to prove that he once supported slavery.