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I liked the suggestion with starting with something colourful and then moving to the Academic.

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I learned that through reading about the Republican and Claudian Dynasty Eras in Roman History. There's no shortage of rather colourful books on the subjects (Collen McCullough's well researched, if not well received efforts and of course Graves' "I Claudius", to name a couple), but there's nothing like going to the Academic histories to answer questions in your mind that those authors might not address.

[ March 27, 2002: Message edited by: vaudree ]

[ March 28, 2002: Message edited by: meades ]

If you could listen to Maggie without making dodo, we have quite the fascinating history because it does not come from above. For every major event there was more than one opinion and for every rule there was an exception. The lack of authority is what makes it Canadian.

Maybe we should ask what is not history.

Are the Canadian docu-dramas fact or fiction? We have quite a few of those, from Sue Rodregues to David Millgaard, to Sheldon Kennedy, to Colin Thatcher - to the Avro Arrow to the Boys of St. Vincent. Even the fictional charactors are conglomerates of a bunch of real charactors - and the gaps between the things we know are filled with story.

Canada: A People's History doesn't count. CBC?Liberal propaganda, that is.

I'm often told that Pierre Berton plays too fast and loose with the facts.