It's easier to understand when you know that the decisions that Americans and others have made over time were never designed to be covered and taught in a Capit

It's easier to understand when you know that the decisions that Americans and others have made over time were never designed to be covered and taught in a Capitalized Theory of A Particular Time Period academic subject. Historians likes overarching themes and stories that make everything easier to understand, it does not like "History is just one damned thing after another."