That is a great suggestion. And I was so disappointed by the answers I was receiving.
It’s not just the Civil War. Most high school grads today would have a hard time identifying James Madison or Douglas McArthur.
About the only things they know about history are a few evils attributed to America. They know we owned slaves. They know we once didn’t let women vote. They know we were “imperialists”. They know about the Japanese internment and that we dropped the bomb on two Japanese cities. They know we (ahem) invaded “Vietnam”. Etcetera, etcetera.