[Takeda Shingen]

Originally Posted by CaptainMattJ.

i dont know how long ago you went through but this is horribly inaccurate now, students now, in U.S history at least, learn about everything. They learn about the colonial period, and all of my teachers have highlighted the fact that the americans blew the problem out of proportion in the revolutionary war, and of how france was one of the biggest reasons we came out on top.

We covered the years after, then the war of 1812, the great expansion into the west, The industrial revolution and the smaller wars in the latter half of the 1800s, such as the mexican-american war and spanish american wars, to WW1, the 1920s, the depression, WW2, 50s, Vietnam and the cold war, 80s, and the gulf war. And all without the ultra-nationalist Go-america attitudes either, it was more neutral than you claim it was. That was my experience, and its pretty dam recent too.

While I do agree that Platapus' post was oversimplified and not entirely accurate, I will say as a matter of fact that most survey courses in US history do end along the lines of "and we won the Second World War and everyone rode off into the sunset and lived happily ever after."