Most top colleges do not require students majoring in history to take U.S. history class
Most top colleges do not require students majoring in history to take U.S. history class
Kate Hardiman - University of Notre Dame •July 4, 2016
As Americans mark Independence Day, a time to remember and honor the nation’s founding, a new report reveals that most top U.S. colleges view teaching students how and why this country was founded as nonessential – even for history majors.
Fewer than one-third of the nation’s leading universities require history majors to take a single course in U.S. history, according to “No U.S. History? How College History Departments Leave the United States out of the Major.”
The report, recently published by the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, warns that the results are seen in today’s young people, who often show ignorance of historical facts and are willing to give up constitutional freedoms: “Historical illiteracy is the inevitable consequence of lax college requirements, and that ignorance leads to civic disempowerment.”
ACTA, an independent, nonprofit organization that works to uphold academic freedom, excellence and accountability, found in its survey that only 23 undergraduate history programs at U.S. News & World Report’s top 76 universities require any type of U.S. history course.
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titles from the different perspectives. It does help to visit/live outside one's own country to understand a lot more about how it is perceived. 
For another view of Texan history, there is an excellent book, Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History. You can find it on Amazon and here is the Good Reads review: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7648269-empire-of-the-summer-moon
It is a fascinating read, first about Comanche history, and second how the Mexicans realized that they could not advance any further north in part because of them. In fact, per the book one reason settlement of "Yankees" in Texas was encouraged by Mexico was to create a "buffer" zone between Mexico proper and the Comanches.
One settler group was the Parker family. After the massacre at their settlement, Cynthia, who was 10, was kidnapped and adopted into a Comanche war band, married a war chief and became the mother of the last Comanche war chief, Quanah Parker. She was found, age 34, but could not readjust to white society. She basically starved herself to death. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynthia_Ann_Parker
The novel and film "The Searchers" are loosely based on her story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Searchers_(film)
You likely already know this. But I found it fascinating, as I basically find learning about ALL history fascinating.
especially Empire. It is absolutely fascinating! 
Having been born and raised in the West, I have tried to educate myself about our shameful treatment of Native Americans. Most books I have found deal with other tribes. This is the first in-depth study of the Comanches that I have found. They were truly formidable warriors. There is also some fascinating information about the Texas Rangers.
"We do better here in _________ when we throw the Republicans out. California did and look at it now!"
What does patriotism have to do with it?
I think one of the biggest failings in the local school districts is that they have let politics and spending drive the content.
Over the last couple years seeing the absolute garbage inserted into some of the textbooks is really scary.
Trying to deny that slavery existed and was a big part of the maturing of our nation... or trying to say it was a good thing for anyone other than the owner.
Pure revisionism. I even see a lot of it on this "progressive" site.
