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Goes on today. Get your head out of your backside and into reality. Posted by James Howard on February 1,2010 01:23 AM A good read. But the myths were weak. The point of an article like this is be to debunk/deconstruct standing well accepted but misinterpreted or just plain untrue "facts" from the general corpus of mythology that underpins American identity. The talking points here are simply obscure, or far from that corpus of myth that they might only appeal to a specialist who would have already debunked them for themselves, and as such end up creating a bit of a bait and switch. Unless the myths debunked are something almost everyone accepts, what is the point of debunking them? It is an interesting article, but maybe it didn't need the sensationalist focus? Robert Johnson University of Munich American Studies Posted by Robert Allen Johnson on February 1,2010 02:28 AM I am a history major, but I hate the way history is taught, it makes it out that this country started with the