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10:10 pm UTC May. 20, 2021 Illustration by Jennifer Borresen; Getty Images In Jamaica a few years ago, during a period when I was doing research on slavery for USA TODAY’s 1619 project, I heard reggae songs that spoke about “the half that has never been told.” I learned that Rastafarians and many others believe that much of history has been censored, recounted inaccurately or omitted altogether. Thinking about it more, I recalled what I learned in middle school about the renowned explorers of old. Men like Marco Polo, Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus sailed around the world recording their impressions of the people and lands that they saw and colonized. Their white, male worldview has for centuries defined our worldview. In the United States, the expression of our national story has been largely through the eyes and experiences of white American founding fathers. What we most often learn is HIS story, not history. It s certain ....
12:30 pm UTC May. 20, 2021 Illustration by Jennifer Borresen; Getty Images In Jamaica a few years ago, during a period when I was doing research on slavery for USA TODAY’s 1619 project, I heard reggae songs that spoke about “the half that has never been told.” I learned that Rastafarians and many others believe that much of history has been censored, recounted inaccurately or omitted altogether. Thinking about it more, I recalled what I learned in middle school about the renowned explorers of old. Men like Marco Polo, Vasco da Gama and Christopher Columbus sailed around the world recording their impressions of the people and lands that they saw and colonized. Their white, male worldview has for centuries defined our worldview. In the United States, the expression of our national story has been largely through the eyes and experiences of white American founding fathers. What we most often learn is HIS story, not history. It s certain ....