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Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July
RUSH: And welcome, my friends, to the Independence Day weekend version of the Rush Limbaugh program. It's great to be with you. It's also shocking to see all these man-on-the-street interviews, if we can believe them -- and I think we can. So many Americans that have no idea why we celebrate Independence Day, Fourth of July, any of that.
Top Colleges Don't Require US History Courses for History Majors
All right, here it is, Wall Street Journal. Read it and weep. I had this yesterday and I didn't get to it, so I printed it out again today. "Few Top Schools Require History Majors to Broadly Study American History." A group says that niche classes like Baseball in US history are rather discussed. This is by Melissa Korn.
"History majors at top colleges don’t know much about U.S. history -- or at least they don’t have to. A new report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a nonprofit group that advocates for accountability at schools, found that just 23 of the institutions among the 76 deemed to be the 'best' by US News & World Report’s 2016 rankings require history majors to take at least one US history course."
Now, stop and think of that for a minute. History majors history majors only have to take one course on US history. Now, why would anybody want to study US history? Of course all it is is the history of racism, sexism, and bigotry and homophobia, syphilis, sexually transmitted diseases, wars, colonialism, pilferage, rape, raving.
Why would anybody want to study American history? All we've done is come in and displace indigenous peoples and then enslave them and take everything they have and make it ours. There's nothing redeemable about America. US history, why in the world would anybody even want to study it.
"Many elite schools, including Rice University and Johns Hopkins University, may require students to take courses about events from before 1750, or on East Asian and sub-Saharan African politics, without also demanding that they study the creation of the US Constitution or the civil-rights movement."
You cannot study history and exclude the history of the United States. It's worse than our common sense tells us it is. I remember John Silber, Boston University president, once studied high school textbooks, seven different textbooks. The largest reference to Abraham Lincoln he found was one paragraph.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Be9f7Ovgg
Americans Don't Know Why We Celebrate 4th of July
RUSH: And welcome, my friends, to the Independence Day weekend version of the Rush Limbaugh program. It's great to be with you. It's also shocking to see all these man-on-the-street interviews, if we can believe them -- and I think we can. So many Americans that have no idea why we celebrate Independence Day, Fourth of July, any of that.
Top Colleges Don't Require US History Courses for History Majors
All right, here it is, Wall Street Journal. Read it and weep. I had this yesterday and I didn't get to it, so I printed it out again today. "Few Top Schools Require History Majors to Broadly Study American History." A group says that niche classes like Baseball in US history are rather discussed. This is by Melissa Korn.
"History majors at top colleges don’t know much about U.S. history -- or at least they don’t have to. A new report by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, a nonprofit group that advocates for accountability at schools, found that just 23 of the institutions among the 76 deemed to be the 'best' by US News & World Report’s 2016 rankings require history majors to take at least one US history course."
Now, stop and think of that for a minute. History majors history majors only have to take one course on US history. Now, why would anybody want to study US history? Of course all it is is the history of racism, sexism, and bigotry and homophobia, syphilis, sexually transmitted diseases, wars, colonialism, pilferage, rape, raving.
Why would anybody want to study American history? All we've done is come in and displace indigenous peoples and then enslave them and take everything they have and make it ours. There's nothing redeemable about America. US history, why in the world would anybody even want to study it.
"Many elite schools, including Rice University and Johns Hopkins University, may require students to take courses about events from before 1750, or on East Asian and sub-Saharan African politics, without also demanding that they study the creation of the US Constitution or the civil-rights movement."
You cannot study history and exclude the history of the United States. It's worse than our common sense tells us it is. I remember John Silber, Boston University president, once studied high school textbooks, seven different textbooks. The largest reference to Abraham Lincoln he found was one paragraph.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-Be9f7Ovgg