Making History Cool?

Catching up on some blog reading today at Hot Air, I stumbled on the video below produced by an outfit called Soomo Publishing. Soomo appears to have a blog set up called PoliSilo, which originally posted the video. As I'm pushing 40, I confess to not having a clue who Timbaland is, but the song and the video take-off (this is not the original music video, so I am given to understand) is a fantastic and creative way of communicating history to a new generation.

First, enjoy:


I'm definitely going to have to poke around and see what else PoliSilo has to offer. A couple of reasons this type of thing excites me: 1) I love history, and I love seeing new and creative ways of teaching important concepts; 2) but the real reason is that this video flashes me back to my teenage years, when the song "We're Not Gonna Take It" by Twisted Sister was released (1984, I think). The music video for that song, of course, had nothing to do with the American Revolution - actually it was a little frightening. But I distinctly remember thinking that an American Revolution motif would have been great for that song.

It is indeed heartening to see outfits gearing up to keep history (and American principles) alive for a younger generation. At my age, I no longer know what "cool" is, I suppose, but in my view, this is cool.