In contrast to earlier historians who viewed reconstruction in negative terms and focused on the era's tragedies and graft, corruption, high taxes, and huge public debts, revisionist historians have found much to admire in the preparations begun in the early postwar years to integrate african

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in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion