OT: War of 1812

[Amy West]

On 5/27/10 12:00 AM, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> Date:    Wed, 26 May 2010 21:51:21 -0400
> From:    Wilson Gray<hwgray at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: OT: War of 1812
>
> "Natives getting short shrift in_War of 1812 Bicentennial_!"
>
>
> Did anyone else besides Geoff Nathan know that Canada*celebrates*  the
> War of 1812?
>
> In the American-history history books of my school years, only slavery
> got less attention. War of 1812: Impressment of sailors on American
> ships. The end.
>
> American history: final exam
> War of 1812
> Q. Define "impressment"
> –––––––––––––––––––––––
>
> -Wilson

Up in Buffalo, where I was for grade school, War of 1812 is BIG in the
curriculum. This is one of those things where curriculum can vary quite
a bit from region to region. My kids here in Massachusetts didn't get as
much coverage.

I'm very much looking forward to the bicentennial. I plan to try to
invade my friends in Canada in honor of it. :-)

--
---Amy West

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org