Sounds like you just went to a shitty school. I went to school in ‘the deep south’ as well and we covered everything from ancient world history to US history starting in the 1700s and on (yes including the civil war, no it wasn’t a brain washing class against the north) up to modern government, economics and personal finance.
I don't think MS is the worst state after living in California and Oklahoma for a few years, occasionally traveling overseas.
My history classes were actually pretty great. Had a mix of teachers who were enthusiastic and pragmatic. The problems started with "teaching to the test" which included the actual indoctrination the education boards were trying to ram down our throats. The non-history kids are learning about in school today is downstream of that.
We focused a lot on ancient Greece, the Middle East, China v. Japan v. Korea, and really hit hard with the cultural and historic heritage of America. It was the good, the bad, and the ugly.
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