embarrased to say I'm 50. hated American history, was an Arts major. The only political bone in my body was festered when i was 13 and Dad ran for Congress.
So I'm makign up for lost time....
Why?
I only asked because you said that you never had heard before that the original Republican Party was founded on an anti-slave and civil rights platform. I'm in my 60s and we were always taught that in school.
I don't know when they started changed the way American History was taught -- or whether it was a regional thing - but my children in their mid 40s did not get the same lessons I did. I had to teach them myself! LOL.
I know that by the time my oldest child was in elementary school, the teachers were hard at work tearing down any vestige of patriotism or honor for our forefathers. But we lived in Berkeley at the time, so it was to be expected.