Dunno how it is for other folks in other countries but we Yankees don't learn shit about anything after the civil war.
Nothing about the industrial revolution, nothing about the development and lead-up to the world wars, the cold war, the modern world, nothing.
The most you may get is being forced to read 1984 and animal farm or if youre lucky grapes of wrath.
Also AP nerd classes barely touch the stuff as well. I only got a chance to begin my studies on Russia purely by chance in the fact the teacher that used to run AP European history was a former college professor social Democrat euro-phile that specialized in the industrial revolution to ww1 period. We learned more than the average student, but there was a bare handful of us that took the class that wouldn't even count as a fraction of a single percent of the total student population in the state.
College was similar as well up until you start getting into your higher classes and your specializations. Of course this can wildly vary between regions as the choice of materials college professors can use to teach can wildly vary based off of the professor themselves. But I have my doubts.
Long story short, we have a nation of people here who's historical education ends with the american civil war.
Dunno how it is for other folks in other countries but we Yankees don't learn shit about anything after the civil war.
Nothing about the industrial revolution, nothing about the development and lead-up to the world wars, the cold war, the modern world, nothing.
The most you may get is being forced to read 1984 and animal farm or if youre lucky grapes of wrath.
Also AP nerd classes barely touch the stuff as well. I only got a chance to begin my studies on Russia purely by chance in the fact the teacher that used to run AP European history was a former college professor social Democrat euro-phile that specialized in the industrial revolution to ww1 period. We learned more than the average student, but there was a bare handful of us that took the class that wouldn't even count as a fraction of a single percent of the total student population in the state.
College was similar as well up until you start getting into your higher classes and your specializations. Of course this can wildly vary between regions as the choice of materials college professors can use to teach can wildly vary based off of the professor themselves. But I have my doubts.
Long story short, we have a nation of people here who's historical education ends with the american civil war.