I still struggle to make sure to not think of history this way, and I know why so many people think that way. It’s literally how history was taught in school. In my high school everything after 1770 was covered in US History, and the chapters went something like revolutionary war, antebellum, civil war, Indian wars, world war 1, world war 2, Cold War.
This is not unique to the US. It is how history is taught. My history books pretty much told me that history ended in 1721. Then there was the French Revolution in 1789 and the industrial revolution in 1800. Then World War 1. Weird to skip the 19th century in my opinion, but no wars here, so it simply is not history.
I still struggle to make sure to not think of history this way, and I know why so many people think that way. It’s literally how history was taught in school. In my high school everything after 1770 was covered in US History, and the chapters went something like revolutionary war, antebellum, civil war, Indian wars, world war 1, world war 2, Cold War.
This is not unique to the US. It is how history is taught. My history books pretty much told me that history ended in 1721. Then there was the French Revolution in 1789 and the industrial revolution in 1800. Then World War 1. Weird to skip the 19th century in my opinion, but no wars here, so it simply is not history.