Explanation: Oftentimes schools teaching history, even modern history, emphasize ‘big’ figures because they’re easier to remember and connect to events. This isn’t wholly a negative - history class only has so much time out of your school day to teach you about the past.
But, as historical academia has increasingly realized since the early 20th century, Great Men and Material Conditions are important - but only part of the story. Much of history is driven on by ordinary folk - often acting from a bizarre mixture of practical, cultural, and individual reasons. Sometimes we cascade with one another into spontaneous movements, sometimes we shift our culture, or cultivate the next generation. Sometimes we’re just keeping the machine moving, and it would go nowhere without us, no matter how big the names in the papers, or how grandiose the explanations of economic conditions are.
Your name may not go in the history books, but you will be a part of it too!
I’m trying to imagine sitting through a history class whose text was drawn from 50 years of meeting minutes of an HOA from a suburban neighborhood somewhere in Arkansas.
… when studying history, there are some remarkably specific college-level lectures one might sit through that resemble that. XD
Nobody else here majored in sanitation worker history?
I fucking love that church ladies are on here. It takes a village.
Wasn’t that the primary driving factor behind the prohibition? After the CIA, of course.
Wasn’t that the primary driving factor behind the prohibition? After the CIA, of course.
That’d be pretty impressive considering the predecessor to the CIA wasn’t formed until WW2.
But yes, Protestants and feminists in the 1910s and 20s were often strong supporters of prohibition. Protestants because it hurt Catholics, and feminists because alcohol abuse was considered a contributor to domestic abuse.
tbf, alcohol abuse was fucking rampant. I ain’t sayin’ I agree, just sayin’ I get why they might have thought it was worth a shot without any easy examples of how badly prohibitions go.
Probably could’ve phrased that better, the CIA was a joke based on how they did introduce shitloads of crack to black communities and have a history of fucking over US citizens they didn’t like
Different prohibitions! XD
The fuck is an exoduster?
So… Exodists.
It sounds like a power armour type vacuum cleaner.
I was hoping for some centurion style coding apparatus also.
They just couldn’t spell exodists. Bone apple tea strikes again.
Wait, smaller cogs are needed to turn the machine? WHAT!?
