[JenB]

Or in other countries, at the same time. Odd how many people I've met who seem to think only one thing could happen in the world at any given point in time.

[Corin Stormhands]

My problem with my history education in Virginia is that one year we would have Virginia history:

We would study Jamestown thru the colonial period and by about May we'd be hitting the Civil War and have about a week and a half to do the next 100 years.

The next year we'd have American history...start in Jamestown...thru the colonial period and by about May we'd be hitting the Civil War and have about a week and a half to do the next 100 years.

When I studied American history in college it was an odd experience focusing almost exclusively on Massachusetts.

I try to read history when I get the time. I am still painfully ignorant of the early 1900s and beyond.