Talking to my mother and other older folk, there seems to be a gradual change in how history has been taught. Doubtlessly unevenly distributed, but public school history in many places has developed to emphasize the contours and details of the societies, rather than dates and places. I remember having an older History teacher in Middle School, and he gave us just the worst kind of shite, the kind of rote memorization that put even me to sleep. All the younger teachers, and all my teachers with ‘Dr.’ in their title, taught a much more engaging form of history.
Talking to my mother and other older folk, there seems to be a gradual change in how history has been taught. Doubtlessly unevenly distributed, but public school history in many places has developed to emphasize the contours and details of the societies, rather than dates and places. I remember having an older History teacher in Middle School, and he gave us just the worst kind of shite, the kind of rote memorization that put even me to sleep. All the younger teachers, and all my teachers with ‘Dr.’ in their title, taught a much more engaging form of history.