Not saying the hard focus on state/local history is at fault. But it does feed into our nasty habit of only caring about those close to us
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Easy enough to only think of people we see everyday AS people. When we rush through a rote recitation of their stories it only gets worse
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This is why we try to teach diverse history, not because omg librul haters. And it’s why they want to defund public education.
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When you learn the stories of other people, you learn empathy, you learn complexity, you learn the opposite of solipsism. That’s dangerous.
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Empathy, complexity, and collectivism are deep threats to current power structures and the Civil War is a HUGE part of that story.
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To include state-to-state diversity in history classes would, in small but profound ways, help with that, I think.
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At the very least, it would help us to understand the nation as a whole, rather than as a series of unconnected stories.
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the other part that it took me ages to realise is how the colonies reflect religious wars in Europe (especially UK)
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why Maryland was Catholic, why Roanoke wasn't resupplied, why so many odd protestant sects and so on
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We teach history as a series of standalone novels within a series, like a really grimdark Discworld about dicks. Dickworld.
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it's balls all the way down
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