My mother told me that when her 8th grade textbook of Official History of Virginia back in the 1940's started with the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 and ended with General Lee's Surrender at Appomattox Court House in 1865- with NOTHING happening thereafter.
No Reconstruction, Panic of 1893, No WWI, No Depression,etc.
IOW, it wasn't unheard of for them to leave out a lot of stuff not so easily discussed.
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