My 1990s Texas high school was very... circumspect... in terms of how it talked about manifest destiny, slavery, and reconstruction. The majority of our histor

My 1990s Texas high school was very... circumspect... in terms of how it talked about manifest destiny, slavery, and reconstruction. The majority of our history classes also frequently got bogged down before we could get to the civil rights movement and really have to go into the dirty little details of what the post-Civil-War US looked like.