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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm one of those Xennials. My experience throughout school, at all levels below college, was that history class started in the autumn with an overview of Mesopotamia, moved swiftly to the advent of the post-Plague merchant class, lingered on the period between Enlightenment and US Civil War, and then rushed at breakneck speed to make it to modern day before the end of the school year (and this was pre 9/11 so we ignored the Middle East). I think our text books spent 3 or 4 pages on Communism altogether, Lenin included. [/quote]

Same here.  Every year, they started at the very beginning, and we never made it much past the Civil War.  [/quote]

Ditto.  But I also think I totally missed the cold war, Berlin Wall, USSR because it was 'too recent'.  I was in 7th grade on sept 11 and I wonder if they actually teach that in school now?  I don't think this is good- I just think this is maybe an issue that has more to do with school pacing and that schools avoid buying newer textbooks so you end up with incomplete history.

Side note- I read an amazing book called The Bronze Horseman that was a love story, but also was set in Russia during WWII.  I learned a lot from that book that I had NO concept of before.[/quote]

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