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Do kids who grow up outside the 13 British colonies have a different mentality about the American Revolution? I always found it natural to wonder stuff like “would I have been a patriot or a loyalist” but maybe that doesn’t make much sense if you’re in 3rd grade in Arizona.
It’s been striking to me how my American history education was Civil War- and WWII-focused, compared to what I hear of people I talk to now. We definitely *did* the Revolution in some detail, but those others were always somehow the emotional and educational core.
Interesting. I remember spending a ton of time on the revolution and feeling like the 20th century got short shrift. I don't think we even breathed on Vietnam until I was in 11th grade. Then again I was in one of those original colonies!
Some of this is a function of mid-20th c. curriculums, which placed the civil war at the middle of Am history, used WW2 as a obvious modern anchor, and divided up material accordingly. By the 80s, this was all out of date, but the only addition was often a little civil rights.
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