History lessons via Pop Culture, Hollywood, and RedBox

Recently, I was going for a drive with my best friend and I told him about how deprived we were educationally. We both attend public schools until graduating from high school. Both of us followed the same U.S. History curriculum mandated by the state of Kentucky. First Semester is roughly 1600's-pre-civil war era; Second semester was Civil War Era-present. However, due to the dated text books, it was more like Civil War era-1969. So, we were only taught about McCarthyism, how the cold war got under way, the Cuban Missile Crisis, The Bay of Pigs...and then they just left us hanging...We were not taught that the Cold War ended, how it ended, the diplomacy involved, etc. I figured when I had more advanced U.S. History in Undergrad my public university would teach me more. Unfortunately, I did not. Over the past summer, I had learned more about post-modern history than in 17 years of formal education. So, if you would like to find out more about what they were not teaching you in school; I have some suggestions: all of the Michael Moore documentaries (use your brain and look past the propaganda; there are ACTUAL facts in his movies), The Barack Obama Story is pretty interesting, Charlie Wilson's War, Julie and Julia (not kidding), Jarhead, Hurt Locker, Blackhawk Down, and many, many more. Check out RedBox; $1.00 per movie and you dont have to fill out a FASFA or use a highlighter.