I agree. norman, however, thinks you and most other American's are historically challenged (read: stupid).
From his editorial:
It takes about 15 minutes to find all this out on the Internet, (a bit more if you choose to look it up in a good history book because they are rather rare in most homes).
I'd agree with him, but not as he'd like: if it has been published in the last twenty-five years (roughly), it isn't going to be good. My dad taught Government and American History for nearly thirty years, and he pronounced the latest textbooks to be "s**t" (dad did - and does - render a blunt verdict). He had to review them, and at the end of his teaching, he was choosing the "best" of a bad lot.