[reaganaut1]

“One of the mysteries to me is why when we teach US History we do not teach enough World History to explain the correlation between the two. What was going on in England and France when the US was fighting the French and Indian War? What happened in Europe just prior to the US Civil War that influenced it?”

The world history you cited focuses on Western Europe, for good reason. The United States is a Western nation whose history is intertwined with England and to a lesser extent the other countries of Western Europe. Acknowledging the special debt that America owes to its English heritage is an offense against multiculturalism and is not politically correct.

My parents are from India. India as a nation dates only to 1948, but the recorded history of people living in what is now India goes back for millenia (as it does for China). However, the history of India and China are less important for understanding American history. That should be obvious, but for many educators that statement borders on “racism”.

[HighlyOpinionated]

My parents are from India. India as a nation dates only to 1948, but the recorded history of people living in what is now India goes back for millenia (as it does for China). However, the history of India and China are less important for understanding American history. That should be obvious, but for many educators that statement borders on “racism”.

I think that history books should at least mention the political ideologies and migration of ideas from the Near and Far East and Africa from/to Western Europe. Kids today don't know that the Middle East was once a prosperous mostly Christian and Hebrew/Jewish area . . . until Muhammad's jihad against God.

I love history and reading history books (even dull ones) and as soon as I finish The Federalist Papers, I think I'll look for a book on the history of India. Can you suggest one?