Agreed- anyone who attended a public elementary school in the US up til about 20 years ago got the traditional western white male story of history ("Columbus sa

Agreed- anyone who attended a public elementary school in the US up til about 20 years ago got the traditional western white male story of history ("Columbus sailed the ocean blue / in 1492," the mnemonic goes, but of course no mention of the extermination of the Arawak in the textbook)- considering that implicit bias, yes, 100% if I found this book on my grandparents' bookshelf when I was a kid I would have devoured it too- and I say it with confidence because their shelves did have books like this and I did read them, eagerly. They also had a Childcraft set from the 1940s, which included a "peoples of the world" volume, and a "Myths and legends" volume, and even though there was bias, I absolutely absorbed those as well.