I've never quite managed to understand how your high school gave you such a crappy grounding. Not that I think mine was perfect, but two years of American history and one of world civilizations at a high school level at least gave me more grounding to work stuff out later.

You're making up for it in spades, though.

I do wish I'd been able to take some history in college, but the 400 page readings a week just wasn't happening with a five-course load of engineering stuff...