History as Stories
Nov 17th, 2006 by lvbirders
Josh and I have been having fun with stories from these two small volumes from the History Channel by Rick Beyer:
The Greatest Stories Never Told:100 tales from history to astonish, bewilder, and stupefy
True to the author’s word, these stories (which have been researched and validated by various primary and secondary sources according to the author) will astonish you. I, for one, never knew that The Scopes Trial was actually a publicity stunt. Did you?
Those sound pretty cool!
[…] In this earlier post, I mentioned the fun Josh was having reading from the book, The Greatest War Stories Never Told by Rick Beyer. One entry in the book tells about how Britain’s “thirst for tea” leads to a drug war with China. Josh told everyone in the family about the entry including his older sister. (She is the same sister who is his co-conspirator to turn on the History Channel whenever they get the chance.) Said older sister was at the bookstore recently and came upon the book, The Opium Wars by W. Travis Hanes III and Frank Sanello. Well knowing a little brother who would be interested in the story, she bought the book for him and he delved into it the minute she gave it to him. The whole family is learning more than we ever could about this time period and event between these two countries. […]