The Psychology of Folklore: Investigating Historical Myths with America’s Original Tall Tales
Here is something worth sitting with before you teach your next history lesson. Americans pride themselves on being straight-talkers that are practical and grounded. A pull-yourself-up-by-your-bootstraps, tell-it-like-it-is kind of people. We celebrate the self-made individual, the honest laborer, the person who does not need a gilded story to feel good about themselves. We have built…