If you could vandalize your HS history textbook in one spot, what would it be?

[Recursion]

I took world history I think as a sophomore. The textbook was ancient (it ended with the Korean war and this was 1992).

The chapter on the 1930s had the sentence "The Abyssinian campaign was the first example of the aerial bombardment of cities". Somebody who had had the textbook before me had crossed that sentence out, and written "Tulsa" in the margin in red marker, underlined twice.

This was years before Google, before even Webcrawler, but there was Gopher and card catalogs, and after a couple of months I found the story. A hell of a surprise for a cracker kid from a small town in Mississippi. Long journeys start with one step.

If you could put one "time bomb" like that in your HS history textbook, what would it be?

[braddy]

1. Aerial bombings?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_bombing_of_cities

[jxla]

2. Memorial Day weekend 1921

[link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot|]

[Recursion]

3. So, strictly, the inauguration of heavier-than-air urban bombing

Which just happened to be directed at the richest black neighborhood in the country. By complete coincidence.

[hunter]

4. I quit high school early, blessed that my two high school history teachers were subversives...

... who paid zero attention to the official high school texts.

I never took a high school history text home, never answered any of the questions at the end of chapters as homework, nevertheless I tested out of my university freshman history requirements. All the university history courses I took were upper division.

My children were similarly blessed by excellent AP high school history teachers, and like me, they never had to suffer any of those required/remedial freshman university history courses.

They'd already learned that history was a messy business.

[braddy]

5. That is nowhere close to the first aerial bombing of a city.

""The first civilian target to be bombed from the air was the Belgian city of Antwerp. This city, at that moment the National Redoubt of Belgium, was bombed during the night of 24–25 August 1914. Instead of targeting the surrounding fortresses, the Zeppelin LZ 25's intention was to bomb the clearly distinguishable historical centre of the city. After dropping approximately ten bombs, ten people were killed and forty injured. The British Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) undertook the first Entente strategic bombing missions on 22 September 1914 and 8 October, when it bombed the Zeppelin bases in Cologne and Düsseldorf. The aeroplanes carried twenty-pound bombs, and at least one airship was destroyed.[13][14] On 19 January 1915 two German Zeppelins dropped 24 fifty-kilogram (110 lb) high-explosive bombs and ineffective three-kilogram incendiaries on the English towns of Great Yarmouth, Sheringham, King's Lynn, and the surrounding villages; in all, four people were killed, 16 injured, and monetary damage was estimated at £7,740.[15]

London was bombed for the first time on 30 May 1915. In July 1916, the German government allowed directed raids against urban centers, sparking 23 airship raids in 1916 in which 125 tons of ordnance were dropped, killing 293 people and injuring 691. Gradually British air defenses improved and the Germans also introduced large bomber aircraft for bombing Britain.""

[Recursion]

6. I mean, yeah?

You seem kind of weirdly insistent on how that one sentence was wrong, which I already covered. Do you have any others?

[braddy]

7. Considering your thread purpose, I thought my posts made sense.