Civil War Stories

[Laurie Verge]

Just one more comment on teaching American history from this old vet: One thing that has occurred over the past forty years (that irked me when my own child was in school) was that there is no idea of continuity and timelines being taught - at least in our local system.

Topics (such as mentioned earlier here - politically correct) are being taught as separate entities without a progressive sense of one thing causing another. I never believed in students having to memorize dates, but it sure helps to teach events in a chronological order so that you can put things in perspective. I suspect that's why people today have no idea that the Revolution came before the Civil War, which came before the Spanish-American, etc.

And, thanks to globilization, our children are taught more about other countries and their history and culture than they are about American history and culture. End of sermon.