History is such a great subject.  The real things that happened are more interesting than any fiction that could be written.  I got a history degree from Indiana and have immersed myself in history my whole life.

But I'm not just interested in "our" history, unless by that you mean the entire history of humanity.  If you're really interested in history, where we come from, the things we have done and the things that have happened to us, I would urge you to leave aside recent history, which is heavily tinged with all sorts of political bias, and look at the entire history of the human race.  That is so much more interesting.  The ancient Greeks, the Romans, the so-called dark ages, the Renaissance, the Civil War, the industrial revolution, WW1 and WW2.  There's so much more to learn about than this recent stuff you refer to, which is so twisted by people with political agendas.

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