The American citizen knows more about Abraham Lincoln from the "Vampire Slayer" movie than any history book/class.
I once spoke to a group of high school students and only a few had ever heard of Guadalcanal and half of them saw it on TV.
In my college classes from 2009 to 2012 at CSN in Vegas, only about one in 300 students knew what a grassroot is or where a US citizen exercises the greatest power (hint: jury duty, because the jury's decision can CHANGE the law, based on what the jurors consider fair and just; lawyers hate a "runaway jury" because of that).
By the, of course, Civics had been out of high school curricula for decades...
The American citizen knows more about Abraham Lincoln from the "Vampire Slayer" movie than any history book/class.
I once spoke to a group of high school students and only a few had ever heard of Guadalcanal and half of them saw it on TV.
Lincoln was anything but anti-slavery.
if you look deep into it, doubt it lincoln or others had much to with slavery. foreign phenomena
In my college classes from 2009 to 2012 at CSN in Vegas, only about one in 300 students knew what a grassroot is or where a US citizen exercises the greatest power (hint: jury duty, because the jury's decision can CHANGE the law, based on what the jurors consider fair and just; lawyers hate a "runaway jury" because of that).
By the, of course, Civics had been out of high school curricula for decades...