[Marysecretary]

That's right. This is why I hate government schools. It's so different from when I was growing up in the 40s and 50s.

[Terriergal]

Hi mary!

yeah mary and newgeezer - history was so bland growing up because it left out all that that might be considered 'hate speech' - including the motivations for why X country invaded another, etc etc... When you don't know WHY things happened, who cares WHAT happened. I didn't like history until I was in jr and sr high and had studied the History of Israel and the Christian church, and began to understand those things more fully.