Were you taught History?

Question

I can say I was not taught history until I got to college. But for those people not fortunate enough to go to college do they even have a clue?

example. I never knew the following paragraph existed until History 101. Why is this not taught in public school:

this was taken out of the Declaration of Independence.

He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, & murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another...

my point is, are Americans miseducated. That was just an example. But there are very many missing pages in the history books, and a lot of those missing pages are where black story should be told.

I personally think that the reason for racism on both sides is miseducation. I was no big fan of white folks until I started to study real history. I learned what role black played in slavery, and also that a mojority of white were against slavery when it was happpening and if not for them black people might still be slaves.

Answer 1

Yes I have in High School and in College.
Once again people interpret things the way they want it to be.This is a part of the Declaration of Independence which is one of the lest read parts of the document.Public schools only use the Preamble oand the opening paragraph to the Declaration.

Answer 2

When I was in high school in Canada, there was only 1 mandatory history course, a grade 10 combined course in civics and Canadian history. For most kids, history ended there, and you can imagine what knowledgeable citizens they must have become from that one tiny experience!

Luckily, they offered optional courses in ancient and early modern history at my school, and I was also able to take a minor in classics in university. So I got my fix. But alas, most people can't put Afghanistan on the map, let alone understand why the Roman Republic was overthrown by Caesar and Augustus!

I have always believed the old adage about being doomed to repeat history if you don't learn it. But it goes beyond that. How can a person understand ANYTHING in this world without having some sort of context to put it against?

Answer 3

because the new independent nation was asserting it's firmness in it's declaration!
They pulled it out because they'd sound like they had a problem on their hands- and they didn't want to sound weak.
The founding fathers, the great presidents we hail as great in the sanitized history classes are all guilty of not following their own edicts! American history is fascinating- especially when you think to what extent it is doctored in regular schools!

Answer 4

In school we're just given the fine points. I didn't learn the truth about Montezuma until I did a college report on him. He was a cannibal as were all Aztecs and they; especially believed fingers were a delicacy.

Answer 5

So when do I get my reparations from the Brits?

It was fully noted in every text book in that I've ever read, that blacks were slaves until 1865. In 1776, what were they going to write about slaves, that they worked in the fields and served their masters?

Answer 6

yes man i know about all that every black person should now about the bill of rights and that other stuff (like for example did you know when the police pull you over in the streets or car they cant search it or you unless they have physical reason there is something illegal happening all you have to say is i don't consent to searches (The 4th amendment) )

Answer 7

You reveal your own bias in the last sentences of your (sic) question. I suspect you were taught history but were not listening in high school.

Answer 8

I was taught history since early childhood.

Answer 9

BACKWORD-FORWARDS; INSIDE-OUT BY HEART
3AND THE F@#@$#ING TRUETH.
MAKES YOU PUKE

Answer 10

And? What is your point?