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I do not remember my childhood years of social studies other than studying about white men and the black men they enslaved or the white men who signed the constitution and what great men they were. I always felt the history I learned was one-sided.
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Myra Kimbrough M/M Eng/Social Studies Dr. McJunkin MW 12:45-1:15 Social studies is the study of world cultures, social and economic issues. It took some time for me to come up with this definition but after years of studying history I feel social studies is not just geography, civics, and history. I do not remember my childhood years of social studies other than studying about white men and the black men they enslaved or the white men who signed the constitution and what great men they were. I always felt the history I learned was one-sided. When I got to junior high school not much had changed. We did begin to learn about a few great black people such as, George Washington Carver, WEB Dubois, and Harriet Tubman. By the time I got to high school, I had formed an attitude. I did not like history because all we ever studied was the Civil War,...
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