Distortions in the teaching of US History

Most of what you learned in HS history is either useless (out of context names and dates), a distortion, or an outright lie. HS American history is supposed to make students proud of their country, but tries to do so in a completely backwards way. None of the bad things, struggles or controversies are included. It's really pathetic.

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The list of disortions and lies is very long, but just for example, did you know:

• Columbus and most of the world in 1492 knew the world was round.


• People from Africa and other parts of Europe came to North America before Columbus.


• Columbus was responsible for plundering Haiti, including the death or enslavement of hundreds of thousands of natives.


• The population of the Americas may have been around 100 million before European settlers arrived in the early 1600s, compared to 70 million in Europe.


• As many as 96% of American natives were killed by a massive pandemic brought from Europe.


• Residents of Europe in the early 1600s rarely bathed because they thought it was unhealthy, but native Americans were very clean.


• Thanksgiving, as celebrated by many Americans, is a myth -- a religous ritual. Almost nothing in the myth happened as it is presented in history books.


• Hitler was elected to office by popular vote.

Similarly, a lot of "common knowledge" about the Federal Reserve is based on historical inaccuracies. The Federal Reserve is a private banking cartel. They are not the "protectors of the public" that they make themselves out to be. In reality, they are the protectors of the big banks. This isn't "conspiracy". This fact can be easily supported with a long list of historical references. And of course that's only the tip of the iceberg...