Although Americans have often viewed our nation as being free from tradition and on the cutting edge of progress, the past nevertheless shadows our nation and its peoples. Although many wars have taken place with Americans, we some times seem to forget about those who we fought with to gain land. Like the Indians, we still today don’t really recognize t

Many people have many different ideas and opinions on history about what it really is or was. But, those opinions and ideas will always be remembered of what happened in our past. After reading limerick and Tompkins’s essay, they have different perspectives on our history. In Tompkins’s essay, she tries to connect all the themes or opinions she had and makes her own analysis about history where as Limerick exaggerates on her knowledge more than Tompkins did. In Limerick’s essay she explains that our nation’s history is a part of our present day lives. Limerick points out that we don’t need to know the little facts about the “white-Indian wars”, we need to know the big facts to resolve anything. Limerick explains this as she quotes,

hem for who they are, we just seem to shove them to the side and forget about them. Today in time you never hear about the Indians accomplishments, it seems as if we just take their land over and never talk about them again. From knowing the real facts on war against the natives, it helps us learn

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