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I thought I hated American history because of the school system in this country over teaches it compared to the rest of the world and once middle school was over I had the most of it down pat. The way US history was taught in high school was super boring, we had to get to the Civil War by Thanksgiving and spent forever going over the Gilded Age. My experience in school with world history wasn't much better. In 6th grade we covered western antiquity and nothing else. My 9th grade teacher had a teaching style that I loathed even though she wasn't a bad person or anything. 10th grade was better.

Even now the way I see history is skewed by the education system as I find the history of the Americas easier to comprehend than the old world. With some countries and regions it seems like the borders are in constant flux and the people in them constantly changing from one ethnic group to the next.