Show HISTORY WAS NOT TAUGHT recognition by colleges of importance of american story A little more than thirty years go a boy could enter harvard college anil and after four years yearn graduate m with ith tho the ill highest 9 beat honors barley without knowing of the existence of the declaration of 0 independence or when the constitution ot of the united states was rained framed says henry cabot lodge in tho the render bender magazine what was true of 0 haryard harvard was true ot of other universities and colleges american history was dot included in the scheme of tho the higher education doys days entering college were required to know something of tho history of greece and rome homo but not of their own country during the tour four years of the college course they had opportunity unity to study the lis tory of england and europe but never to loam learn aught of the united states this condition of education was mer merely S an indication of an attitude attl tiido of mind then ben passing away but which had once b been predominant the usual opinion seems to ba have been during the first halt of nf the nineteenth century that there was no american history worth telling apart from the adventures of the revolution which were ere both connected so closely with the history of europe that they bey might be deemed ot of importance |