Eric Takabayashi <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
> masayuki yoshida wrote:

>> mtfester@netscape.net wrote in message news:<be9etp$rfc$3@news.Stanford.EDU>...
>> > masayuki yoshida <ysd_m@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:
>> > > mtfester@netscape.net wrote in message news:<be89lc$3jp$1@news.Stanford.EDU>...
>> > >> masayuki yoshida <ysd_m@yahoo.co.jp> wrote:

>> > Well, it's a much shorter time period to cover.
>>
>> You mean American history textbooks don`t cover the Stone Age, for example?

> Not in American History. I didn't get much about American pre history before Columbus.
> This is one issue in American history education, you see - focusing mainly on the

Um, if you're going to cover "American history", that's pretty much what you're
gonna cover. There really aren't that many extensive written records left
by their predecessors.

Now, ANTHROPOLOGY...

> actions or achievements of European males, while not covering much of the indigenous
> people, women, or other regions of the world, including yes, the effects of WWII on
> Asians such as the A-Bombing. Such issues should be studied.

Actually, we had most of that in WORLD history...

Mike