How is the American War for Independance taught in the UK?

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

So the Colonists had their relatives still living in England

I don't think that's true for most of them.

came from England

See above.

were a part of England

Really? Where is the USA on this map:

England owned America. That's not the same as America bing a part of England.

had a war and took English property

Taking English property doesn't make it a civil war. The USA took British property.

but it wasn't a civl war?

Now we're getting somewhere.

So scotland was never a part of the UK either? That is like saying Hawaii isn't a part of the US.

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

I've wondered this before. I also wonder how World War 2 and the Holocaust are covered in Germany.

I always figured it was handled the same way the US Internment of Japanese citizens is handled in the US... you know barely touch upon it and have the surrounding curriculum be about how great and noble your country was and then hope nobody noticed by not even including a question about it on the test...

Actually, my last U.S. History class had a common theme "We are douchebags". We covered imperialism, our unrightful taking of Texas, the Japanese interment, basically everything that we did wrong or were jerks about.

 

[Cheesus333]

Britain - a country made up of an amalgamation of many different cultures - has over two thousand years of history. And that's just for the time we actually lived here.

In my experience, pre-GCSE (between ages 4 and 14/15) History is about Romans, Tudors, a little of World War 1 and a lot of World War 2. Schools can't get enough of that shit. Towards the end, there's also a lot of stuff about civil rights, particularly Martin Luther King Jr. I don't know about beyond mandatory History though, but my friends who did it said it was pretty much just about Germany between 1918 and 1939.

Nothing about the American Revolution, as far as I know.

 

[Jewrean]

Is the OP trolling?

How is the Australian Gold Rush taught in American high schools? What's that? It's NOT?!? Shock and awe!

Case in point: The whole world doesn't revolve around your country ya' kno.

Although to be fair, history belongs to the victors... so of course England probably wouldn't want to cover it.

 

[ACman]

The French were fighting the English already. And by 1776 the former colonies had proclaimed themselves to be a nation.

I think the distinction is that conflicts between Empires and their colonies are called wars of independence or revolts (Depending who wins) while a civil war is a conflict between two peoples of opposing ideology or creed or religion within the same territory.

 

[ACman]

Wars between Scotland and England weren't called civil wars though. They are separate countries.

 

[Reallink]

Over in Australia, we got nothing about it. Got our own, and some European, but nothing on America. Unless you do what our school called Modern History, in which case you were practically gods, thanks to the war-fetishism it promotes

 

[Sacman]

I've wondered this before. I also wonder how World War 2 and the Holocaust are covered in Germany.

I always figured it was handled the same way the US Internment of Japanese citizens is handled in the US... you know barely touch upon it and have the surrounding curriculum be about how great and noble your country was and then hope nobody noticed by not even including a question about it on the test...

Actually, my last U.S. History class had a common theme "We are douchebags". We covered imperialism, our unrightful taking of Texas, the Japanese interment, basically everything that we did wrong or were jerks about.

Man you must've had a lot to to cover... my History classes were usually about how great America was... The only time we talked about any of the times where The US were being dick pistons was with my student teacher in my last semester where we were talking about the Cold War...

 

[spectrenihlus]

Over in Australia, we got nothing about it. Got our own, and some European, but nothing on America. Unless you do what our school called Modern History, in which case you were practically gods, thanks to the war-fetishism it promotes

Practically gods?!? PShaww we are/were gods according to these guys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

So the Colonists had their relatives still living in England

I don't think that's true for most of them.

came from England

See above.

were a part of England

Really? Where is the USA on this map:

England owned America. That's not the same as America bing a part of England.

had a war and took English property

Taking English property doesn't make it a civil war. The USA took British property.

but it wasn't a civl war?

Now we're getting somewhere.

So scotland was never a part of the UK either?

don't even go there. Scotland is not a colony nor was it a conquered nation. the act of union was two independent sovereign nations joining to created a new political entity and you are the one who has insisted in calling Britain England all the way through this.

But by your definition, The Civil war in the United States was never a civil war. The south didn't wish to take the whole nation, they simply wanted independence from the other states. If they had won, it would have been a "Revolutionary war". Just as the Civil war between the colonies and England was called therafter.

 

[Reallink]

Over in Australia, we got nothing about it. Got our own, and some European, but nothing on America. Unless you do what our school called Modern History, in which case you were practically gods, thanks to the war-fetishism it promotes

Practically gods?!? PShaww we are/were gods according to these guys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

Yeah, but that was because they didn't know about the outside world. Take the Aztecs thinking the Spanish were some kind of Centaur because they hadn't seen horses before.

But this is getting off topic, so I'm stopping for the sake of the original question

 

[GraveeKing]

You had a war with us?
No but in all seriousness, I don't remember it ever being mentioned and I took History as a GCSE. I think the fact we let you off the leash and become independent was probably one of the greatest failures in human history, that and we're utterly miffed that you got rid of our lovely Tea I do tell you >.>

 

[Tyrant T100]

It goes like this.
For GCSE subjects (Compulsory) including History (Choice of subject) It never gets mentioned.
For AS level history 17+ after official school ends it will come up a few times in the British politics course from 1815-1850

 

[Lil devils x_v1legacy]

Wars between Scotland and England weren't called civil wars though. They are separate countries.

except for the 1745

Texas was it's own Nation once too.

 

[Sud0_x]

To answer the question in the title: haven't the slightest.

I'm from Australia and back when I covered it in school we first studied the American Revolution, then the Russian Revolution and later compared them. Point of this being that the American Revolution was a joke compared to people with real problems (Also see: French Revolution). Hey don't blame me, that's just how I was taught.

Edit: May have missed the topic completely here, my bad....
Second Edit: Wowza! This thread is complete chaos *puts head down*