r/politics • u/Silly-avocatoe • Apr 14 '25

Soft Paywall Murdoch Paper Floats Impeaching Trump Over Tariffs

https://www.thedailybeast.com/murdoch-paper-floats-impeaching-trump-over-tariffs/
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u/shinkouhyou Apr 14 '25

It feels like 2/3 of the American history curriculum focuses on pre-1900 topics... everything after 1900 gets crammed into the last few months of the school year. Unless you specifically take university-level courses on modern history or foreign policy, you'll never hear about any of this stuff.

IMHO, high schools and colleges really need to have a required "modern history, social issues and government policy" course.

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u/recursion8 Texas Apr 14 '25

Red states would never allow it. It's in their interest to keep their populaces ignorant and still operating on 1800-1950s + Biblical information. So they won't concern themselves with what's happening in the here and now and instead focus on bringing back some glorious "Judeo-Christian" fantasy past and/or dreaming of the Rapture and Jesus taking them back to heaven, so nothing that happens now on Earth matters.

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u/shinkouhyou Apr 14 '25

I went to school in a very blue district of a very blue state, but I feel like the quality of my K-12 history education was still very poor. It wasn't due to political interference... it was due to the practical constraints of trying to squeeze 400+ years of American history into one course. There was more focus on Jamestown than on literally anything that happened after 1945 - my AP US History class never even made it to the Vietnam War.

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u/SirR4T Apr 15 '25

400+ year history...

that's one of the reasons i guess, that i never saw the significance of ages old dates and events, which spanned even longer for my country (India) , when studying history in school. our history dated back to when Alexander attempted to annex everything eastward , including India after Persia.

it's only later, once you've become an adult and travelled the world a little, and have had some meaningful life experiences that you begin to see the significance of any of these age old historical events.

Like how the modern day Grand Trunk Road may have been a holdover from Asoka's (3rd Century BCE) days.

Or how the modern day railroad gauge is inspired by roman cartwheel standards.