While some patriots have chosen to launch groups on ning, and others have chosen to get involved in an endless number of creative ways, a couple of friends, Joel Munn and Jacob Roecker, joined resources with a goal of helping people to relearn the history that has been withheld from people in the traditional educational books of today and years gone by.

Below, Jacob Roecker has provided you with a brief explanation of what he and Joel are striving to accomplish with their project.

Dear Fellow Patriots:

For the past year learned a great deal about our Liberty as we fought its erosion.  In the process, we have learned that we are not alone.  We’ve moved beyond the superficial understanding of history and started finding answers to the questions we’ve had burning inside of us.  We’ve learned to pick ourselves up from wherever our formal education left off, and have discovered the process of self-education.

Haven’t you sat there over the past year and said to yourself, “Why didn’t I learn this in school?”  “Why was the evidence for conservatism being the answer never addressed in my history books?”  Well, I think it’s time we do something about it.  I’d like to take a minute and introduce you to a new website for those of us who have “re-learned” history, a group of us are working hard to create http://ReLearnHistory.com The idea is to create The Ultimate History Book–the one you wish you would have had in High School.  The only problem is, who’s going to write it?  The answer is, YOU!

Don’t run off too quick.  You don’t have to do it alone.

We believe everyone’s questions about history are legitimate, and the only way to address all of them is online where space is not a limiting factor.  We want people who have questions about history to post them online so others can answer them–something you can’t do at Wikipedia.  If you can ask questions, you can contribute.

One of the questions I asked as I was re-reading the Declaration of Independence one day was, “Who are the main characters?”  In answering this I discovered that there are three, God, The People, and The King.  I’ve started the description of the Declaration of Independence showing that GOD is part of the legal argument for creating our nation.  At the end of the article I posted other questions I had about the Declaration of Independence for others to answer ( http://relearnhistory.com/content/1776-July-04-Signing-Declaration-Independence ).  Over time, as your questions get asked and answered the write-ups for every historical figure, topic, and event will be addressed and our children will have a resource to explore the subjects that get ignored in their history books.

One 13 year old recently told me, “My history book is rather thick, but it really doesn’t say much.”  The reason why it doesn’t say much is that it uses a “fair” standard based upon Chronological Significance.  Basically, it means that if something takes more time, it must be more significant and therefore it makes the “cut” to be placed in history books.  Of course, we all know that doesn’t work, so the government-lobbied-solution has been to placed little historical vignettes to highlight the “diversity” of America’s ethnicity instead of vignettes to show the credibility of America’s heritage.  My thirteen year old friend made a bold statement, but what she was really saying was that, “history is something you can talk a lot about, but you can’t learn anything from it.”  Truly we are doomed if we don’t provide something that not only illustrates historical topics, but helps us devise the lessons from it!

To make this work ReLearnHistory.com needs an army of authors and readers.  We need YOU.  If you’ve got a question about history, we want to know it.  If you’ve got an answer you discovered, we want you to post it.  It takes just a few seconds to create an account ( http://relearnhistory.com/user/register ).

In school you were discouraged from asking your questions.  I know it sounds odd to have someone send you this asking you to share your questions.  Yes, your questions are legitimate.  Yes, we want you to ask them.  Even the smartest people who seem to know “everything” about a topic are wise enough to know they haven’t asked all the questions about it yet.

Certainly if you have answers we’d like you to share.  We’ll take as many “Answermen & Answerwomen” as possible!  Odds are, you already know more than you think you do.

Please ensure this gets the widest distribution possible.  Don’t you think the conservative network we’ve built up over the past year ought to get used for something as significant as this?

I applaud these two men for their new and unique approach to providing people with a resource and service to help close the many gaps in our American history. I highly recommend that you take a few minutes of your precious time to review the site and get further involved.