So I'm honestly curious here... I realized the other day, that most millennials (yes, I am a millennial as well so this is coming from personal experience) were not fully educated on matters of more recent history much beyond WWI and WWII in high school and college.
Maybe it simply never came up as a topic of study in the classes that I took (I loved history in school so I definitely paid attention), but we never really covered the Korean War, Vietnam War, or any more recent conflicts from the past 100 years or so in depth.
It might be briefly mentioned, but there has never been a full unit of study on any of the more recent conflicts in my experience with my history classes. Whereas we cover the split of the American Colonies, the Civil War, WWI, and WWII several times over throughout our education. I'm not saying that this older history is not important, simply that we tend to repeat chapters over and over instead of continuing the story to its end and learning all of the lessons it has to offer. I also understand that we do repeat some of the more important chapters several times over as you want to teach important events to children when they are young, but they aren't necessarily ready for all of the details.
If this more recent history has such a huge impact on our current relations with other countries, our understanding as to why certain countries don't get along and need mediation, and affects the decisions we make on policies and our leaders, why do we not really cover this in our K-12 Education? Particularly when the last 150 years are far more applicable to our daily lives and our government. If we learn from History, and we aren't learning that more recent history can we really be making informed political decisions?
Not trying to start a fight here, just honestly curious as I am actually a big History fan :)
Submitted December 19, 2017 at 10:39AM by BrainsBeautyBrawn http://ift.tt/2BfaCqm
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