The Collision of Military Cultures in Seventeenth-Century New England

Hirsch, Adam J.

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“…By the 16th century, European warfare had evolved into a highly complex form of gentlemanly encounters, in which it was not unheard of for combatants to make war during the day and to dine together at night. Battlefield engagements conformed to an elaborate etiquette, in part a result of the cumbersome sequence of actions -up to 42 separate steps -involved in firing and reloading a musket (Hirsch 1988(Hirsch : 1187(Hirsch -1212.…”

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Historical Thinking and other Unnatural Acts

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2010

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The choice seemed absurd, but it reflected exactly what the debate about national history standards had become. "George Washington or Bart Simpson?" asked Sen. Slade Gorton (R-Wash.) during the congressional debates. Which figure represents a "more important part of our nation's history for our children to study?" (Nash, Crabtree, and Dunn 1997: 232). To Gorton, the proposed national standards represented a frontal attack on American civilization, an "ideologically driven, anti-Western monument to politically correct caricature" (Nash, Crabtree, and Dunn 1997: 234). The Senate, in apparent agreement, rejected the standards by a vote of 99-1. Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts Debates about national history standards become so fixated on the question of "which history" that a more basic question is neglected: Why study history at all?

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“…They act like wolves and are to be dealt with as wolves. (Hirsch 1988(Hirsch : 1208 It's not that Derek was a careless reader. On the contrary, his reading was fluent, and his skill at mon-itoring his own cognition (a process psychologists call "metacognition") was enviable.…”

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Historical Thinking and other Unnatural Acts

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2010

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“…11 For the colonists, one consequence was the dilution of their symmetrical European tactics with the asymmetry of the Indians' reputed 'skulking way of war'. 12 The contrary view denies this process of acculturation and instead contends that from the mid-seventeenth century the colonists reaffirmed and entrenched their commitment to European military culture, tactics and strategy.…”

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