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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teens rarely retain info from actual history textbooks anyway. Textbooks are not the best way to teach about social studies anyway.

Not talking about AP. Most of those kids are motivated. [/quote]

Textbooks are [u]one[/u] of the methods used to teach "social studies" effectively.  Solely using primary sources would not be a good method either.  Kids lack context information and an overall view of events when you only dive into specific primary sources (which represent just one or a few people's view of an event).

For example, it is very common in history classrooms to do a debate on whether dropping the atomic bomb was justified.  This involves reading sources about that event and its aftermath.  But, the kids (who usually say it wasn't justified) have absolutely no background knowledge on Japanese imperialism in Asia and its treatment of conquered people, treatment of POWs (Bataan Death March, etc.), Japanese military tactics and the likelihood of surrender, the implications of Stalin invading Japan, and even just the background of WWII (their learning is often limited to Japanese internment camps, the Holocaust and "the Homefront" with Victory Gardens), etc.  So basically, they are swooping in unfamiliar with the knowledge and attitudes that went into making the original decision.  History is complicated and using just a few snapshot documents ALSO is not the best way to teach history.[/quote]

Did they know that Japan try to surrender 5 times before the bomb was dropped?

https://archive.org/details/per_chicago-daily-tribune_1945-08-19_104_33[/quote]

Relevance to this thread?  And again, one source.[/quote]

History is complicates

Also in Japan, there is very different history than US history for ww2

Japan peace overtures to a neutral (at the time) Russia is well known in historical source[/quote]

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