Show HISTORY WAS NOT TAUGHT recognition by colleges of importance of american story A little more than thirty years ago a boy could enter harvard college and after four years graduate with tho highest honors without knowing of the existence of the declaration ot in dependence or when the constitution ot the united states was framed says henry cabot lodge in the header what was true ot har vard was true of other universities and colleges american history was not included in the scheme of we higher education boys entering col lege were required to know something of the history of greece and rome but not ot their own country during the tour bears ot the college se they had opportunity to study the is tory ot england and europe but to learn aught of the united states this condition ot education 1 was mere ly an indication of an attitude of mind then passing away but which had one been predominant the usual opinion seems to have been during the first halt of the nineteenth century that there nas no american history worth telling apart from the adventures of the revolution which were both con so closely w th the history of europe that they might be deemed of importance |