Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2020-11-01 10:27 a.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>
> > I never like history in school.Â* It just did not seem to be
> > relevant to every day life then or in the future.Â* Years later, I
> > found out why and ever since had a lot of interest.
> >
> > Not sure if it was me, the teacher, or both, but it was not
> > interesting as presented.
>
> It is interesting to read books on history and see how different they
> are from the stuff we were taught in school. A prime example may be
> American history and how the country was founded by people looking
> for religious freedom and making heroes of the Puritans. They were a
> radical Protestant sect who wanted to establish a religious colony.
> They were shit disturbers back in England and they staged a civil war
> because they thought the king was too kind to Catholics.

One of the periods that facinates me is Elizabeth I.