I was absolutely shocked when I learned about this, it seems a huge omission in my education. And I did an undergraduate major in history in which we studied WW2, the cold war and Stalin as a dictator. Somehow we were never taught about this specific event.
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I know y'all got some good ones because in 2013 I had to break the news to 2 of my MIT classmates that the US government committed war crimes in vietnam by using agent orange. they had never heard of it.
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I have three. 1) Modern US imperialism/meddling with foreign elections, 2) the white-washing of figures like MLK, and 3) the extent of violence against black people in the 20th century
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oh yeah how about the fact that the FBI tried to convince MLK to kill himself?!?! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93King_suicide_letter …
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A bit more abstract, but just how misleading a lot of the “X empire controlled this territory” maps were. Old empires were very thin states & the peripheral regions were often just cases where local elites ran things as before. Not like modern nations
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this is a great point!! i kind of half-knew this but not really, love the clarity you're bringing here!
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Essentially nothing about the British Raj or East India company. Also zilch on the Middle East during the 20thc. We learnt a lot about the battle of Hastings and ancient Egypt civilisation though. Did you know deliberate mummification became a huge deal in the latter??
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ahahahaha it drove me crazy as a kid how much time we spent on ancient egypt!!!
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In high school, the Holocaust was a significant omission. I think this was not unique in the (Deep) South. Learned about this at my HBCU. If Roots hadn’t aired, I suspect the coverage of slavery would have been worse. The wars in Vietnam and Korea were not covered at all.
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