History: The Loaded, Silenced Gun History is a story that is constantly suppressed. Most people have heard the quote “History is written by the victors” by Winston Churchill, but very few people stop to think about what it means. For example, everybody learns about the settlements in Early America, but few people learn about the suffering and pain the Native Americans went through due to this. The nonfiction text Flyboys by James Bradley exposes the side of American history that was never taught in elementary school. Bradley describes the extremely unjust actions that the U.S. took to obtain more land. He recalled some of the most barbaric actions, such as the Denver residents that applauded “a pile of hacked Indian penises...[and] American soldiers who displayed hats over which they had stretched the vaginal skin of Indian women” (Bradley 10). This is an atrocity that is beyond comparable. To top it off, “no one was ever charged with any wrongdoing” (Bradley 10). In fact, the American president at the…show more content… The novel Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston, racial etiquette in the early 1900s was illustrated beautifully. When Tea Cake goes looking for help, two white men forced him to bury bodies, even though he told them “‘Ah’m uh workin’ man wid money in mah pocket’” (Hurston 170). The fact that he had money did not change the fact that because he was black, he had to work for the white men. Judy Barrett Litoff and David C. Smith, in their writing about women during World War II, tell the story of different experiences from many women. They claim that “when the classic work on the history of women comes out to be written, the biggest force for change in their lives will turned out to have been war.” During World War II, women were needed to keep factories running, and propaganda, such as the Rosie the Riveter magazine cover, were
