RE: How is the American Revolution taught in the UK?
July 5, 2012 at 2:47 pm
(This post was last modified: July 5, 2012 at 2:51 pm by 5thHorseman.)
America not an empire? Nice one. They went west in the early days, right? Now they go east. Hundreds of bases strategically placed around the worldglobe. It's called an informal empire.
I renovated the oldest house in the next village to me. I think it was 14/15/poss 16th century at oldest. Beautiful place.
(July 5, 2012 at 2:04 pm)Thor Wrote:(July 5, 2012 at 1:56 pm)5thHorseman Wrote: We're taught nothing about the American Revolution because it's an incredibly minor part of our history. Following the revolution, about 65 years later, we became the largest empire ever and brought the world capitalism. This country's history is taught from the Romans, Vikings, Normans, Saxons - to modern history, WW1, WW2 & The Cold War. In that timescale, a hell of a lot has happened, many, many invasions, new civilisations etc.
We do have much more history to fit in
Yes, there is much more history concerning the UK compared to the relatively recent arrival of the US.
A few years back there was a fellow from England that I was working with for awhile. We got to talking about his home country and he told me how he live in a 250 year old house when he was growing up. At one point they were redoing part of the house and they discovered some old artifacts under the floorboards or behind a wall (I forget which). I was amazed that he lived in such an old house. He replied that in the states a 250 year old house is very old whereas in England, a 250 year old house is barely broken in.
I renovated the oldest house in the next village to me. I think it was 14/15/poss 16th century at oldest. Beautiful place.
