1. The Tulsa massacre has definitely been undersold in standard US history teaching. In fact, we tend to spend too little attention on the domestic side of the whole tumultuous period from 1917-25, in favor of focus on WWI, the League of Nations & the 14 Points.
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2. That's partly a relic of the WW2/Cold War focus on internationalism. Most grammar/high school histories of that period have previously given the 1918 influenza pandemic extremely cursory attention. I suspect that will not be true in coming decades.
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Replying to @baseballcrank
Every history teacher has grand plans until they get to Teddy Roosevelt and its April.
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Also, this has gotten worse. When I was a kid, it was defensible to skip Vietnam because it was more recent news than history. Lotta water under the bridge since then.
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