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 Vtg 1898 USS MAINE BATTLESHIP Souvenir War Spoon Set Orig. Print Ad US $4.99 
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 1898 CAPTAIN COLLIER " WHO SANK THE BATTLESHIP MAINE " 1898 PUBLICATION - EXC - US $1.25
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 U.S. Battleship Maine 6682 Tons. 4" spoon. made by Standard US $8.99
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 USS BATTLESHIP MAINE VALVE HANDLE, SPANISH AMERICAN WAR US $2,999.99
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 1¼" Round Celluloid? MAINE Battleship Pin Antique Spanish American War Pinback US $25.00
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 U.S.S. Maine Battleship Afloat in Havana Harbor Photo Advert Window Card Prov RI US $9.00
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 c1897 USS BATTLESHIP MAINE SPANISH AMERICAN WAR CAST IRON FIGURAL CLOCK US $128.25
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 Battleship Maine Poster Cramp Works Philadelphia 1900 US $14.00
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 ANTIQUE OLD 1800's EAPG GREEN U.S. BATTLESHIP WAR SHIP MAINE GLASS PLATE US $54.99
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 U.S. BATTLESHIP "MAINE" Green Souvenir Dish 5 3/8" Vintage US $24.99
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 1898 spanish american war USS MAINE silk handkerchief sweetheart battleship rare US $29.99
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 STERLING SPAN AM WAR SPOON - BATTLESHIP MAINE U.S.N. US $65.00
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 STERLING SPAN AM WAR SPOON - BATTLESHIP MAINE DESTROYED US $49.95
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 BATTLESHIP MAINE DESTROYED - SPANISH AMERICAN WAR SPOON US $24.95
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 US BATTLESHIP MAINE 6682 TONS - SPAN AM WAR SPOON US $24.95
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 BATTLESHIP MAINE BLOWN UP 1898 - SPAN AM WAR SPOON US $24.95
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 BATTLESHIP MAINE, CAPTAIN SIGSBEE - SPAN AM WAR SPOON US $24.95
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 U.S. BATTLESHIP MAINE- SPANISH AMERICAN WAR CHINA PLATE US $95.00
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 U.S.BATTLESHIP MAINE - SPANISH AMERICAN WAR GLASS PLATE US $49.95
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 BATTLESHIP MAINE - SPANISH AMERICAN WAR MILKGLASS PLATE US $49.95
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 1894 milk glass candy dish battleship "USS Maine"; Spanish-American War US $50.00
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 DRESEN SPANISH AMERICAN WAR U.S. BATTLESHIP MAINE PLATE US $79.99
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 c1898 USS Battleship Maine 4.5" Engraved Spoon Sterling plate US $48.00
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 Antique Etched Glass US Battleship Maine Lost 1898 Havana Harbor US $18.00
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 9 Old Antique Admiral Dewey War Hero Battleship Maine Badges Buttons Tray US $65.00
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 U.S. Battleship Maine period lithograph Havana Harbor Day before the catastrophe US $195.00
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 c1898 U. S. Battleship Maine Hand Tinted Postcard US $12.99
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 b0425 USS Maine Hat Tally (Woven Repro) Battle Ship US $12.00
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 BATTLESHIP MAINE, DEWEY'S VICTORY, SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR MEMORABILIA LOT US $50.00
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 LARGE BATTLESHIP MAINE PORCELAIN PLATTER ~ SPANISH AMERICAN WAR US $55.00
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 USS MAINE RARE BATTLESHIP ORIGINAL PRELIMINARY DESIGNS US $8,995.00
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 Battle Ship Maine Lith 1898 US $26.99
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 Battle Ship Maine, Carlton T. Chapman Lith 1899 US $26.99
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 Silver on Copper Commemorative Spoon - Battleship Maine US $10.00
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 U.S.Battleship Maine Commemorative Demitasse Spoon US $8.00
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 Antique U.S. BATTLESHIP PINBACK BUTTON THE MAINE Wm. F. Miller & Co. US $29.95
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 SPANISH AMERICAN WAR RELIC BADGE ~ MADE FROM THE BATTLESHIP MAINE US $69.00
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 Orig. Antique FRAMED PRINT U.S. BATTLESHIP MAINE Atwood US $49.95
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 USS Battleship Maine Havana Harbor Feb 1898 Graphic US $17.00
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Battleship Maine
Tom Rhoads: Battleship of Maine
Do Historians Contribute to the Decline of Nations?
The United States of America did not achieve great status until after the Second World War, and except for that war, it may never have achieved it, for America’s achievement was accidental. Because the industrial nations of Europe destroyed themselves in two major wars within thirty years, America, being isolated from the battlefields of both wars, was able to become the “arsenal of democracy” and the re-builder of Europe’s destroyed infrastructure which boosted America’s manufacturing prowess and economy to heights never seen before in history. Yet America today appears to be in an unprecedented, swift decline which has taken place over a mere half century. If this decline is real, America’s stature as a great power will be the shortest in history. So one has to ask, how could this have happened?
The common answers given are its greed, profligacy, immorality, violence, and injustice, and all of these may have played a role. But I doubt that these answers are profound enough, because we can ask, why has America become so greedy, profligate, immoral, violent, and unjust?
We are often told that those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. But what do historians mainly teach us?
Historians, especially the writers of textbooks used in schools and colleges, tend to emphasize a nation’s accomplishments. We read about the great battles, the wars won, the conquests made, and the achievements. We rarely read about the failures, the frauds and deceptions, the injustice, the bigotry, the violence, and the poverty.
Few Americans know, for instance, that most of America’s major wars were begun for unjustified reasons. The Mexican War was begun because of a serious over-reaction to a minor, incidental, incursion of Mexican troops. The Spanish-American War was begun on the unjustified supposition that the Spanish were responsible for the battleship Maine’s destruction. The Vietnamese War was escalated because of the fictitious Tonkin-Bay incident. We rarely read these facts in history books.
In Texas, where Texas History is a required subject, we read about the accomplishments of that small band of Texans who defeated the Mexican army and established the freedom of Texas from Mexico, but we rarely read about what scoundrels that small band of Texans were.
The Americans who, along with Moses Austin, obtained a colonization grant from Mexico never intended to keep the agreements they were a party to. Their intention all along was to take the territory and turn it into another Southern slave-owning state. After achieving independence, Texans joined the Union and seceded from the Union in just 25 years. When we read about these Texan heroes, we rarely read about what agreement-breaking scoundrels they were.
We rarely read about our almost complete genocide of native Americans, about the sweat-shops and industrial accidents that Americans endured, of the violent suppression of labor’s attempts to be treated with human decency, about Jim Crow and lynchings, and bigotry, about the incessant poverty in the world’s most prosperous society.
The consequence is that the peoples of great nations think far too highly of themselves than reality justifies and therefore tend to neglect their faults which fester and expand until they become so overwhelming that the nation collapses in its own dissoluteness. The lessons of history that we need to know if we are not to be doomed to repeat it is not the history commonly taught but the history that is commonly ignored, for only by correcting faults can nations become better.
About the Author
©2007 John Kozy, Jr.
http://johnkozy.mindsay.com
Retired professor of philosophy and logic. Blogs about social, political, and economic issues. Tends to avoid mere opinion and propaganda and emphasizes logic, fact, and evidence.
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