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Forget the Pilgrims. America's roots are older and more twisted, what Tony Horwitz calls a "primordial slime of false starts and mutations."
  • Maybe My Highschool Was Better Than I Thought.

    Huh. Where'd you guys go to school? I remember learning about the bloodthirsty Spanish in seventh grade. "Gold, Guns and God" and all that. All the stuff in this article was in our curriculum, except for Amerigo Vespucci's NSFW fantasizing.

    It was all pilgrims all the time in elementary school, but that was just an excuse to get the kids making paper turkeys and pilgrim hats anyway.