World History or *insert your country here* history?

[tarheel91]

The Ghost of RubangB said:

tarheel91 said:
@Rubang: I think how American History is taught has a lot to do with the teacher.  There are definitely lots of US History teachers who teach it like that.  I've had one.  However, some do a great job of presenting the facts and facilitating discussion about what was right and what was wrong.  It's gotten better over the years, though.  We did some historeography looking at stuff from the 1920's-1960's, and the propaganda was amazing.  I never thought you could portray the KKK as knights in shining armor, but it's been done.

Yeah I'm sure it depends a lot on the teacher.  My college professors have all been very interested in their own field, while my high school teachers were like... also the football coach.  My best American history class was a political science class in community college.  I guess I could say it was like a history of American law and politics, and the professor loved his job and loved his field, so it was great.

But for this thread, I wouldn't want to choose any one particular country at the expense of the rest of the world, so I gotta go with world history.

Yeah, I'm fortunate to attend one of the best schools in the nation.  It has a pretty small faculty, so they can actually be picky with who they take.  My AP GoPo teacher is a political blogger prominent enough to be featured on CNN, and she's received numerous teaching awards.  My APUSH teacher has her masters in it and was the one I was talking about when I mentioned facilitating discussion.