History

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I don't remember anything I learned in high school. Is that weird? I mean, it has been over 10 years. I barely remember anyone I went to high school with, let alone what I learned. Of course, we all know that 90% of what is taught in high school is close to b.s. Like Columbus being a nice guy. And they sort of gloss over the fact that the Puritans who founded America were basically kicked out of their various European communities because they were, well, puritanical. So we're helping my husband's nephew try to pass "History 102: 1877 to the Present". I lost interest in history once it got past, o, say, the Indo-Aryans invading the Tigris/Euphrates. And strangely enough, all of my jr high & high school textbooks ended sometime between WWI & WWII... low budgets. Most of my history textbooks were published around 1956, and I was in high school in the early 90's. I don't remember the '60's, not because I wasn't there, but because "Moments in American History" ended with 1955. I saw most of modern history happen on MTV news - the Berlin Wall came down, the Tian'amen Square Massacre, etc & so forth. I watched the Twin Towers collapse on CNN, tho, so I guess I've grown up a little since then. I do remember thinking to myself that I should have been watching it on MTV tho.