The quality of your post has been noted and the points are hard-facts – and the untruths, many believe still. I happened on your post by a resteem this evening. Ironically I spent the morning commenting on a creative post about Gettysburg and providing a long supplement based my long time interest of the subject-matter.

Being a baby boomer and a Yankee from the Northeast, I can remember the "basic track" schooling of the period. Only due to being raised with a military rearing, I looked to the public libraries to know more, as I was just interested. The information was pretty the much the established norms , and the spilling out with the known facts of the period. But also there were a few pearls as well, but I was not yet mature enough to accept or understand or both. When the time came to serve, one becomes more aware of regional perspective dealing with folks from a cross-section of the nation and not the isolated capsule of home. In time one gets a little wiser if one chooses to. And since it came to pass living in the South, some more.

I’ll conclude that there is simply many faults in education, pertaining to the dictating and restrictive textbooks and students who don’t have the determination or capability to excel and learn something more than “basic education.” But the ignorance of many Americans is also daunting on a great many things. History is written by the victors and facts gets “recorded” accordingly as you said. A very good concise post and I enjoyed it.