Quote Originally Posted by Autumn Rain
Quote Originally Posted by ~SapphireStar~
Someone here has obviously failed high school history.
Hope that wasnt aimed at me. And is that what Americans call Religious Studies? History? History to us is a completely different subject, well in my Catholic school it was.
It's the same way in the US. I think that was aimed more at Evastio.
I was exaggerating slightly. In high school, I elected to do Extension History which was a lot more rigourous than normal textbook history. We had to gather sources as well as authenticate the validity of the author and whether what he wrote was worth taking to heart or not.

Strangely enough, this kind of history isn't really encourage in University, probably because most of the secondary sources we come across are much much more reliable and we take more of an "yeah, the historian is probably right here" kind of mentality.

My original point still stands, read all you can about the subject if you're truly interested in uncovering the truth.