“I don’t think boys read that sort of history today.”
It’s so sad, isn’t it? I remember reading so many great books in junior high and high school in the 60s, none of which are taught today.
The old versions of that male history have been discarded and the fewer new books of that sort of thing are never seen by the boys, they are written for a few older men with an interest in military matters and military history.
Boys grow up with no knowledge of men in history and how history is a tale of male actions and drive, and they are largely raised by women and live in a woman’s world of teachers, and single moms anyway.
“It’s so sad, isn’t it? I remember reading so many great books in junior high and high school in the 60s, none of which are taught today.”
We had the Landmark history books, and the “you are there” historical fiction books for young adults.