Sunday, August 28, 2016

While chatting with some secondary


WW2 Documentary From Space While chatting with some secondary teacher companions, I asked how American History was being educated today. I generally had an affection for history, regardless of the possibility that the instructor was exhausting. I especially delighted in finding out about the American Civil War, and the occasions paving the way to it. I considered it to be an age occasion which characterized the American character. The fallout of the Civil War was additionally fascinating including carpetbagging and the defilement of the Grant organization. The vast majority of what I took in originated from History and Social Studies classes I took from grade school to secondary school. I didn't take any formal history classes in school, however took in a great deal through alternate courses I took. To complement the importance of a subject, the teachers regularly thought that it was important to portray its chronicled roots.

I was overwhelmed to learn American History was being instructed externally. Astoundingly, it was shown beginning from World War II and advancing to today. It was additionally my comprehension the secondary school history instructor made broad utilization of DVD video cuts instead of addresses which I discovered rather odd. Recordings give fabulous jolts, yet their firmly worded scripts don't generally give the justification to an occasion.

The school's understanding of American history traverses an immaterial 73 years. I figure anything happening before 1940 was viewed as insignificant, for example,

- The Great Depression and Dust Bowl

- Prohibition, bootlegging, and the ascent of sorted out wrongdoing; e.g., Al Capone

- Women's suffrage and the nineteenth Amendment

- The court military of Gen. Billy Mitchell

- The Roaring Twenties, including flappers, "The Charleston", and Jazz

- Isolationism, the RMS Lusitania, Eddie Rickenbacker, Sgt. York, Gen. Pershing, and the League of Nations

- Building of the Panama Canal

- John L. Sullivan, Jack Johnson, and Gentleman Jim Corbett

- The "Dark Sox" embarrassment

- The Spanish-American War, including the Rough Riders and "Recollect the Maine"

- The San Francisco seismic tremor and Johnstown surge

- The commitments of Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Guglielmo Marconi, Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, et al.

- The World's Fairs of Philadelphia, Chicago, Buffalo, and New York City (twice)

- The ascent of Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst.

- The works of Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, and so forth.

- The Passenger Pigeon and close annihilation of the American Bison

- The Wounded Knee Massacre

- Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Gen. Custer, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn

- Manifest Destiny and "Seward's Folly"

- Sutter's Mill and the Gold Rush

- The reprimand of Andrew Johnson

- Carpetbaggers

- Abner Doubleday and the Cincinnati Red Stockings

- The Civil War

- John Brown attack on Harpers Ferry

- The Dred Scott Decision

- The Mexican-American War

- Tammany Hall and "Manager" Tweed

- The deaths of Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, and William McKinley

- The Lincoln-Douglas banters about

- The Missouri Compromise and the Kansas-Nebraska Act

- Sugar-Rum-Slave group of three

- "Old Hickory" and his disassembling of the Second Bank of the United States, and paying off the National Debt

- The War of 1812 and the Battles of Tippecanoe and New Orleans

- The blazing of the White House and Washington

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