+387 History Textbooks are condensed facts covering sometimes thousands of years. The writers have to pick which events are most important and the amount of information they have to cover is only growing. Yes, kids will probably know about Obama and 9/11, but many of the events we consider 'big' probably wont get more than a blurb in a 'cool facts' section. Amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

yeah, history is all about opinions. I mean, like what you think is more important, someone might think it isn't important at all. so I agree completely.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

tl;dr

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I agree that writers have a lot of information to cover- however, they put a great deal of useless information in there. I recall my middle school textbooks having dramatized retellings of events that if they were simply stated as fact, they would take one paragraph instead of ten. A lot of the dramatized events were things someone had no way of knowing ever happened, because they were contained in say, the ancient Egypt section of the world history books. If we were to just talk about US history, I'd recommend the book Lies My Teacher Told Me. Very interesting book.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I just realized that this was a rather unrelated rant. I apologize.

by Anonymous 13 years ago