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In reply to the discussion: Study: 22% of Millennials are unaware or unsure of what the Holocaust is [View all]JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)28. Do schools spend much time teaching 20th century history?
Not having kids, I really don't know, but my own high school experience a million years ago was that lots of class time was spent on the Civil War and western civilization, etc., but next to nothing on more recent history.
In fact, my first exposure to Jim Crow laws was on a field trip to Lincoln's New Salem, IL, not from our history teacher but from an African-American classmate who schooled the rest of us on the bus trip home.
I probably first heard the word "Holocaust" from the 1970s TV mini-series by the same name, not in class.
Judging from the poll's findings, nothing much has improved in the eons since I was in high school.
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Study: 22% of Millennials are unaware or unsure of what the Holocaust is [View all]
blondebanshee
Apr 2019
OP
Even if they don't teach it in school, where is the intellectual curiosity to learn it on one's own.
EffieBlack
Apr 2019
#27
"Sixty-six percent of Millennials and 41 percent of adults" Um, every Millennial is an adult.
Cuthbert Allgood
Apr 2019
#10
Like the US should have classes on slavery and the genocide of Native Americans n/t
TexasBushwhacker
Apr 2019
#56
I agree. We do have to understand the past to move forward in the future.
Captain Stern
Apr 2019
#49
Technically that's true...but her and her ilk have been with us in one form or another
Volaris
Apr 2019
#44
You don't know where you are going if you don't know where you have been.
redstatebluegirl
Apr 2019
#51