Another Book Thread

[Russell Jaslow]

The History of North Dakota?

In college, I took a History of New York State course. The first day, the professor disses on the western states, mocking a History of Kansas class in their university system. Of course, implying, NYS has way older and more intricate history than Kansas. Funny thing is, the Europeans completely laugh at any American history. That's recent times for them.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Funny thing is, the Europeans completely laugh at any American history. That's recent times for them.

My wife's degree is in history & poli-sci and she finds American history to be short and relatively uninteresting in the grand scheme of humanity.

 

[Jimjamesak]

Alaska has a required Alaska History course in high school. It was after my time but my daughter took it.

It focused a lot on precolonial Alaska Native history with some stuff on Russian America, the Alaska Purchase, and pre-statehood.