overrated: watergate

underrated: iran contra

overrated: great depression

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49834367)

Great Depression is correctly rated. Indirectly led to the welfare state, Hitler, etc.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49834376)

Underrated: The Industrial Revolution and its reception in the United States.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49834398)

Underrated: Kate's turquoise panties

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49834801)

After the Civil War it became all about making money, then spending money.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49835392)

one category which is absent from a lot of US history teaching is the indian wars. not 'custer's last stand,' which has also become a regime narrative over time. but the actual battles and campaigns which defined the borders over time. even battles the US lost, like st. clair's defeat.

i suspect this is because it 'frames' US-native relations in the 'wrong' sort of schema, as one of mutual combat, rather than one of unilateral victimization.

demographic shifts in american cities in the 1960's are hugely important to the modern nation (whites fleeing crime and supercharging the suburbs, etc.), but stuff like that is way too politically-charged for the system to touch.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49835075)

In retrospect it's really fucking shitlibby to be teaching it to ~8 year olds

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49836941)

But he had a video a while back showing that the stuff you tell kids at this age basically fully brainwashes most of them for life. He gave some example where kids were told about the Northwest Tree Octopus. An Octopus that lives in trees in the northwest part of the country. All of the kids just fully believed it. Obviously it's BS, but they just took it in completely.

So now you just think about how kids are told about slaves being constantly beaten and whipped, how they're escaping via an "underground railroad," and they're constantly being raped. And then these kids grow up and see movies like "Lincoln" (fucking unbelievably bad garbage) and endless movies and TV shows about racism and they just believe it and then increasingly lose their minds when nothing changes in the condition of black people despite no real visible racism. Big problems!!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49837020)

It's significance is that it destroyed:

- Austrio-Hungary Empire;

- Ottoman Empire;

- Created the Forever Jewish War in Palenstine;

- Set the stage for Germany to kick-off WW2

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49839430)

overrated: fur trade in early americas

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49835219)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49835442)

college/grad programs should have history 100% be a larger component in a perfect world, though it would likely just wind up being lib garbage.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49836813)

Even worse was my AP music theory teacher & band teacher--an absolute nightmare of a woman who wouldn't let me take AP music theory "2" (for some reason, she wanted AP music theory to have a second part for a full year). I was furious, my guidance counselor even called her a bitch, etc. I wound up getting a 5 on the AP exam anyway.

The "pick a lane and stay in it" approach didn't work for me when I was in my teens and it sure as fuck doesn't work for me now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49836906)

everything before rome and between rome and the "enlightenment" is basically treated as lotr with fake characters and storylines. in a normie educational setting dominated by women the specter of serious civilizational turmoil and decline, or alien peoples existing under radically different ideas and moral systems, really cannot be dealt with seriously as a tangible matter experienced by real people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49836850)

but this is of course a nonstarter in 2026, a kid just has to get lucky enough to be born into a family that's aware and motivated enough to offer different avenues of intellectual enrichment from the home, or to be curious enough to pursue it on his own, which at least the internet still makes possible for the sufficiently precocious kid.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49836946)

Come to think of it, we really didn't learn anything in history class besides the plight of the 6 million.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49836858)

it marked the creation of all these new cities and towns. it left racial issues completely unresolved (do black sit in the back of the train or the back of each car? can they use this water fountain or is that a white fountain? it hasnt been marked yet).

we spent way too much time on the underground railroad and none on the actual railroad

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49837025)

We talked a lot about the Iriqois confederacy though.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49837072)

Not nearly enough religious background given in public schools. EVERYTHING that has happened in the west since 1517 is fairly nonsensical without an understanding of Catholicism, the Reformation, and various Protestant divisions.

Thirty Years War not brought up much

As for US stuff, the Korean War gets glossed over

I remember being behind in the syllabus and not being taught shit about anything after ~1969

Dissolution of the Soviet Union & formation of the EU both under-discussed. HS teachers have this way of thinking 'oh that's practically a current event, I don't need to cover it in class, they should know this'. The Soviet Union collapsed when I was 8, I didn't really know shit about it until later in life.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5859430&forum_id=2)#49838888)