I mean, I’m interested in military history, but I wouldn’t have put it in a standard curriculum. It’s not really a globally-significant event. You don’t have a whole lot of time allocated for history, much less military history, and you gotta triage what you cover. We had a very small amount of time for World War II, which was much-more significant, and I don’t think my classes even did the Korean War at all.
EDIT: It looks like The Operations Room did a video on YouTube on Operation Paul Bunyan. They kinda rely more on memoir stuff than would be my ideal, but they’re usually at least decent. I don’t think I’ve watched this one.
I’m more concerned with how teachers weight ancient vs contemporary history. I feel like most things taught are so far back in such a different era, the truths must be significantly tougher to find/grasp, right? So why the back toward current timeline chronology?
“The only thing we’ve ever learned from history is that we can’t learn from history”
How was this hardly 50 years ago, but I’ve never heard of it at all? Very selective about modern history in schools i guess
I mean, I’m interested in military history, but I wouldn’t have put it in a standard curriculum. It’s not really a globally-significant event. You don’t have a whole lot of time allocated for history, much less military history, and you gotta triage what you cover. We had a very small amount of time for World War II, which was much-more significant, and I don’t think my classes even did the Korean War at all.
EDIT: It looks like The Operations Room did a video on YouTube on Operation Paul Bunyan. They kinda rely more on memoir stuff than would be my ideal, but they’re usually at least decent. I don’t think I’ve watched this one.
EDIT2: No memoir stuff in this one.
I’m more concerned with how teachers weight ancient vs contemporary history. I feel like most things taught are so far back in such a different era, the truths must be significantly tougher to find/grasp, right? So why the back toward current timeline chronology? “The only thing we’ve ever learned from history is that we can’t learn from history”
I mean, I don’t know about you, but I didn’t cover that much ancient history either.