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Hard Pressed?
you would be hard-pressed to find a modern-day American who knows any of this
Just curious, do students today not learn this stuff? I'm sure Horowitz goes into a lot more detail, but I remember learning about the Spanish in Florida, the Huguenots, the Vikings. Maybe it's because I grew up in Virginia, where it's all about Jamestown and the Pilgrims are considered a bunch of interlopers. But we learned about the Spanish and the French and the Vikings too. (And yes, at a public school.)
Are kids today so busy with "no child left behind" that they don't learn basic history?