Some of the older folks are just as ignorant.

I'm happy to say I fall in between for a few more years, so my ignorance doesn't count.

1. History as taught in schools tends to omit anything controversial including labor history, treatment of Native Americans, life under slavery, unions, civil rights for women, African-Americans, Latinos, Chinese, Japanese, etc.

I only learned last month that Andrew Jackson ignored a Supreme Court ruling to send the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears, and I'm 59 years old!

2. The information carried by the internet is fragmented and without context. You have to read books to learn history.

they finish twelve years and four and content themselves that whatever they learned was enough. More's the pity.

I think different generations may find different subjects and time snippets in history as interesting.

Depending on what is important to them now and what resonates from the past.

As a very, very general example… a thirteen year old who is beginning to really question authority may find some historical case of authoritarianism or someone who stood up against authority as particularly interesting.