Naturally, this is FR, already making us one in a 100.
But the general voting population? More like one in 10,000.
IOW, what we know about history is not moving the needle an angstrom unit.
We might as well be students of ancient Sanskrit literature, for what it means to today’s events.
A sad state of affairs, but probably true.
There has been a deliberate dumbing down.
I was very fortunate to grow up where I did, when I did.
History is fun. I have always liked history. I’ve been reading history since I was a little kid. My university undergraduate degree is in history (and among my professors were historian Stephen Ambrose, and former senator George McGovern; the latter was interesting, though I disagreed with his politics, and even told him so: I still got an A).
I have several thousand volumes of books in my house, and probably half of them are works on history. Even at that, I go to the local library weekly and pick up something interesting to read (I’ve been doing that pretty much regularly since I was 12; even when I was in the Air Force I’d go to the base libraries).
Reading is my greatest pleasure. I have an old sweatshirt that says: “So Many Books; so Little Time.”