(We also learned about western settlement by watching that tom cruise movie where he wears a hat so maybe not the best education ever but the best there was in my county I guess)
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Fun fact about my high school in the late 90s in rural Pennsylvania: our "history" classes stopped well before Vietnam. We barely got into WWII. Anything that anyone was alive to remember, it ignored.https://twitter.com/akmcquade/status/1040753528875245570 …
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Some time around 12th grade I started to call bullshit on it all and I keep meaning to email those teachers to apologize
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2000s KY and ditto. In middle school, one year ended with the start of the civil war, and the next ended with "and there were two World Wars." Spent a lot of time on cave men and Western Exp. Learned abt the Holocaust and Civ Rights Mvmnt in Eng. Never did get past WWII in hist.
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I went on to study American art history. One nice side effect is/was learning American history.
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Mine stopped just after WW2
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Sounds like you might have gone to my rural Pennsylvania high school, where we read Reader’s Digest in English class
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Same. It was AP US history and we just got as far as we could I guess.
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That sounds like the history classes I had in rural Illinois in the 1980s.
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I remember several history teachers complaining that they could never get through the entire span of history. Closest we got was college level civ i & ii where I think we barely made it to Iran contra bc we glossed over so much and watched all the presidents men for nixon
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Meanwhile my 4th grade *music* teacher managed to make it past wwii. Taught me more world history than any other grade school teacher.
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