The early European contact with Native Americans and the over villainization and heroization of parties involved - the Natives, Christopher Columbus, and the Spanish conquistadors. Two historians on opposite sides of the political party battle and the same singular characters of history. Ahh... controversial topics are but a minefield for creative interpretations.
The American Revolution is the grand and epic struggle that resulted in the independence of the 13 British colonies forming the United States of America - more or less. But a question remains what caused it? An analysis of two proposed reasons by the infamous democratic, Howard Zinn, and the American conservatives' favorite English man, Paul Johnson.