How has history changed for you?

With the flood of information available now, how do you see history in comparison to how you were taught history?

I’ll start, When I was younger I would look at the pictures of the great wonders of the world with fascination of how such primative people could build such wonders. I saw these pictures in the time life book series from the seventies so it was still alot of mystery surrounding these descriptions versus scientific research. Then later in life I learned of all the complex mathmatical equations built into the structures, the astrological alignments of the structures and the engineering required to build these structures and history has taught me that maybe they weren’t so primitive after all.

Another example is how Alex Haley’s “Roots” opened my eyes to the horrors that was slavery, where before it was just a couple sentences in a book. History sure changed for me that week as well.