Justify the Hobby:
Historical Education

History Awareness Survey

by Pete Panzeri

Colonial Williamsburg Survey: Yet another report documenting the sorry state of history awareness by America's teens has been released. According to a survey commissioned by Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 22% of American teen-agers did not know that the United States declared independence from Great Britain during the Revolutionary War -some 14% believed France was the enemy. The study also found that 17% did not know there were 13 colonies and 15% did not know that the Declaration of Independence was adopted July 4, 1776, by the Continental Congress. The report was based on interviews with 1,000 teen-agers from across the country who were asked to answer 10 questions from a 4th grade level history exam. To tap into the CW press release that summarizes the study, and to take the test and compare your results with the teen test results, tap into: http://history.org/Foundation/press_release/pr_historysurvey2 (Excerpted from NCC WASHINGTON UPDATE, Vol. 7, #28, July 5, 2001 by Bruce Craig of the National Coordinating Committee for the Promotion of History) Back to Veteran Campaigner August 2001 Table of Contents Back to Veteran Campaigner List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2001 by Pete Panzeri. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com