I have a book called History Lessons: How Textbooks Around the World Portray US History
I am so checking that out of the library.
Which is strange, considering it's not just a US-thing.
Yeah. I mean...the Ottoman empire was big on enslaving western European sailors and crusaders from the middle ages through the end of the Renaissance.
I had another student from Japan who had learned about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of course, but never as... visually as we do. She'd never seen pictures of *people* affected by it
Wow, really? I would think they would concentrate even more on that aspect than we do.
I remember three frigging years of American history in schoole--fifth, eight, and eleventh grades (the last one was AP). We never even got to the Civil War in fifth (I was so sick of the colonials by that point, you have no idea), hit Reconstruction in eighth, and did through the early Clinton years in AP--my teacher was going to get us through the whole book come hell or high water. I think we wrapped up the Civil War the day before Christmas break. I have a feeling we spent more time on Reconstruction than is done up north; we also did a considerable amount in the Articles of Confederation/Federalist period, mostly because none of us had even known there was something before the Constitution, and there was a lot of mythbusting going on.
I had a year of world history in tenth grade (I honestly remember nothing of it, though I have a feeling colonialism was involved) and I took the AP European History course in twelfth because I was interested. That was another backbreaking, but good, class; I think we made it through WWII, at least, which is a bit more impressive when you're starting from the fall of Rome and then going in depth starting with the Renaissance. ;)
The concept of restrictions on marriage.
I think you're right, and I really hope this comes true.
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Date: 2009-11-12 02:28 pm (UTC)I am so checking that out of the library.
Which is strange, considering it's not just a US-thing.
Yeah. I mean...the Ottoman empire was big on enslaving western European sailors and crusaders from the middle ages through the end of the Renaissance.
I had another student from Japan who had learned about the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, of course, but never as... visually as we do. She'd never seen pictures of *people* affected by it
Wow, really? I would think they would concentrate even more on that aspect than we do.
I remember three frigging years of American history in schoole--fifth, eight, and eleventh grades (the last one was AP). We never even got to the Civil War in fifth (I was so sick of the colonials by that point, you have no idea), hit Reconstruction in eighth, and did through the early Clinton years in AP--my teacher was going to get us through the whole book come hell or high water. I think we wrapped up the Civil War the day before Christmas break. I have a feeling we spent more time on Reconstruction than is done up north; we also did a considerable amount in the Articles of Confederation/Federalist period, mostly because none of us had even known there was something before the Constitution, and there was a lot of mythbusting going on.
I had a year of world history in tenth grade (I honestly remember nothing of it, though I have a feeling colonialism was involved) and I took the AP European History course in twelfth because I was interested. That was another backbreaking, but good, class; I think we made it through WWII, at least, which is a bit more impressive when you're starting from the fall of Rome and then going in depth starting with the Renaissance. ;)
The concept of restrictions on marriage.
I think you're right, and I really hope this comes true.