"How the rest of the world learns about the American " Topic

….Revolution in school.

"The American Revolutionary War is an intensely proud moment in history for most Americans (perhaps too proud). It's taught as a major subject in history classes as early as elementary school, and it's brought up again and again in different contexts in middle school, high school, and college. Along with the Civil War, it fills up more pages in history textbooks than any other event in American history.

In the US, it's often taught as a heroic struggle for freedom against the tyrannical British Empire, which was unfairly taxing the colonists without giving them representation in government (though in some high school classes, and certainly at the college level, it's taught with more nuance)…."
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Amicalement
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How shocking it is to learn that a nation's history is more important to the people of that nation than it is to people outside of that nation.

Next you'll tell me that history is more important to historians than lay folk.

Will the revelations never cease?

What's this "join-or-die" snake that keeps getting mentioned? Mostly by Europeans it seems. It's not a thing I've ever heard mentioned here in Britain!

The article is in contrast to my experience in US public schools.

In the third and fourth grade, we had geography, but no history.

In the 5th grade, we spend most of the year on the period spanning Columbus up to the revolution, a couple of days on the Revolution itself, and then some weeks on the establishment of the government and western expansion. We spent considerably more time on the War of 1812 than the Revolution. We touched on the founding fathers in the six grade as well, but I think that only came about due to the bicentennial celebration.

The rest of the sixth grade was an overview spanning ancient Egypt to the Fall of Rome, then US history post 1812 through WWII. Seventh grade was spent studying South and Central America. Eight grade was the discovery and exploration of the Americas. High School involved the half a year each on US and Ohio Law, US geography, US economy and trade in the 20th Century, and half a year on the French Revolution. College was sociology, social psychology, etc., no actual history.

Through most of those years, a class session lasted around 45 minutes. We spent roughly three hours on the American Revolution and the ACW combined, as opposed to four months of class sessions each on the the French and Indian conflicts and French Revolution.

Maybe back in the 50s and 60s it was taught that way.
Today? Maybe by a few isolated teachers in the wilderness.

In some parts of Canada, a kind of footnote to the SYW and a precedent to the War of 1812 (which does get taught) – in much of Canada, hardly taught at all

Thanks!.

Here… we have to studied History from day one… it was one of the strongest subject of study… the first 7 years of primary school and the next five (some have six) years of secundary school… also geography (with mathematic … puaj!)…

So, we have to lern a lot of history… not many about Oceania or Africa… but much about Europe, and all the Americas…

Amicalement
Armand

Amicalement
Armand

We just learnt about the Nazi's and the Wall Street Crash (bit of Romans, Vikings and Henry VII early on..)

We have to studied a lot of the American Revolution here… also de ACW and WW1 AND WW2… nothing about 1812 War… only the Napoleonic Wars and of course… the Central and South American War for Independence…

Amicalement
Armand