JSYK: 4 American History Myths (Patreon)

When I first began writing this script, there was a 5th myth that I expanded into it's own video: Can Nuclear Families Save The Black Community. My favorite busted myth in this video is the one of American self reliance, because the myth fuels class divides, poor choices in political representation, and poverty. As such, you may enjoy the thread about poor white loyalty to wealthy whites to provide more context. 

Sources

How Benjamin Franklin, a deist, became the founding father of a unique kind of American faith (Thomas S. Kidd)

The Founding Fathers, Deism, and Christianity (David L. Holmes) 

The Way We Never Were (Stephanie Coontz) 

The Non-Existent Frontier Bank Robbery Larry Schweikart

Quantifying the Wild West: The Problematic Statistics of Frontier Violence (Robert R. Dykstra)