Fixing History

 We often see the claim "The [American] Civil War was over tariffs" coming from Lost Causers. But how true is this? Well, let's start off with this question first: How much of the Federal government's revenue did the Southern states actually pay? As per this image, taken from page 71 of this report from the NY Chamber of Commerce , we can clearly see that NYC alone consistently accounted for the overwhelming majority of America's foreign trade (around 2/3rds). As per  this selection of pages from that report , we can see that NYC alone handled a far higher percentage of the goods subject to duties and tariffs. In 1859, for example, NYC alone paid about 2/3rds of Washington's tariff revenue. This is, of course, excluding other major Northern ports like Boston and Philadelphia. The only substantial port in the South at the time was New Orleans. Therefore, the overwhelming portion of tariffs were paid by the North. It therefore follows that if tariffs had been th...

  This is a note from Himmler's Dienstkalendar , his appointment book. The first part of this note, "Judenfrage," was likely written before the meeting, with the last part being written afterwards. source for the document: https://phdn.org/archives/www.mazal.org/archive/documents/DOC-00002.htm

This is an intercept made by the UK Foreign Office which originated with a COMINTERN group somewhere in Poland (presumably). It is a document pertaining to the gassing of Hungarian Jews in Auschwitz-Birkenau in mid-1944 Here is a transcript below (source: The National Archives, Kew, HW 17/56): TOP SECRET. TO BE KEPT UNDER LOCK AND KEY: NEVER TO BE REMOVED FROM THE OFFICE                  No:       ISCOT 399.                     Date:    21st October, 1944. Service 133 . To:  17 [ZAVADSKI]                  From:  18 [VECLAV]                      No:   1.                         Date: 25th June, 1944.                  [ A very corrupt message only      readable in parts].                          In the concentration camp of           OSVIECIM the Germans are gradually killing from five to ten thousand Hungarian [1 or 2 w...

This is a list of sources that give pretty good brief overviews of the topics they deal with. This is not meant to be a comprehensive list of sources. For a comprehensive list of sources that I have cited, please see the relevant blog post (under construction). For a list of primary sources I have cited in this blog, again, see the relevant post (under construction). American Civil War McPherson, James P. Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. Ancient South Asia Basham, A.L. The Wonder That Was India: A Survey of the Culture of the Indian Sub-Continent Before the Coming of the Muslims. London: Sidgwick and Jackson, 1954. Joseph, Tony. Ancient Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where They Came From. New Delhi, Delhi: Juggernaut Books, 2018. Japan Henshall, Kenneth G. A History of Japan: From Stone Age to Superpowe...

Introduction Hi everyone. Welcome to Fixing History. This post will serve as a sort of statement of purpose and general overview of the blog. With that out of the way, let's begin! Statement of Purpose The purpose of this blog is as follows: 1. To debunk historical misinformation 2. To improve historical literacy 3. To make history more accessible to the common person 4. Help protect the common person against fringe and baseless historical mis/disinformation About this Blog I got the idea for this blog from the Holocaust Controversies Blog (you can check them out here ). I wanted to make something similar, though I obviously did not want to totally copy what they had done over there. As such, I decided to expand the scope to cover all (or at least most) of history, including things that aren't really history (such as pre-history). I've also decided to add an educ...