Don't Know Much About [American] History

On the flight home from Chicago I read Don't know much about history, which, strangely enough, is all about American History. What is interesting are the significant world events that we didn't learn in school in Australia - like the land grab of 1830 against Mexico, and the official policy to reduce American Indian numbers back 100 years ago.

Not very flattering for the land of the free...

But neither can most countries boast - there's dark secrets in most culteral groups backgrounds. It's just interesting that I'd never heard of either these two facts before.

tech/books | 03 Aug 2004 | #