a thoughtful web.
Good ideas and conversation. No ads, no tracking.   Login or Take a Tour!
comment by JTHipster
JTHipster  ·  4317 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: European History Told As Many Narrate Native American History

The problem is that compromising on what's to be included in a textbook will sacrifce some very important history. Yes it skips the vast majority of the Americas but its a full European picture. I'd rather have a full course in history for Europe, America, and the Middle East as standard, but if we can't have that ideal I'll take the full European history and sorry minorities. Maybe one day people will value history as a subject.





humanodon  ·  4317 days ago  ·  link  ·  

People do value history. History classes? Not so much. The point is, common knowledge deserves and needs to be broadened, not only in America, but everywhere.