Huh. interesting. that was not my impression, but I didn't know about the land-grant acts, so perhaps I am wrong. Vetoed by Buchanan - you don't get a much

Huh. interesting. that was not my impression, but I didn't know about the land-grant acts, so perhaps I am wrong. Vetoed by Buchanan - you don't get a much stronger endorsement of a government action than that. It's interesting, and I'm going to read up more on this; I mean, from the overview, it looks like C.P. Snow's "The Two Cultures" thing was a live issue much earlier than I had thought. Note, I think you might be using the word "revisionist" wrong. I was being ignorant or lying, right? (I mean, I was being ignorant, but you can't tell ignorance from deception at a distance.) Historical revisionism is a different thing; and certainly not a thing you can do without quite a lot of knowledge about the subject and the historical context. It's not just making things up (any more than the rest of history isn't just making things up) Go read the wikipedia article on it :)