We had an exchange student from Costa Rica in 1995. The American history teacher told her class that they always ran out of time, so he was going to start at the present and go backward in time, so the students would cover recent history first. Which the students wanted. A few years later, we hosted a boy from Spain, who also took American history. He pointed out that in his history class at home, the Spanish were the heroes. And this year, I am a liaison for another exchange student and her history class is going to go backward and the kids really like doing it that way.
I helped the student we hosted, and seeing American history 'against the flow' really made some major themes stand out. And learning that whoever writes the history books can influence the view was an eye-opener too 
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