Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances Fitzgerald has written a review of History Lessons: How Textbooks from Around the World Portray U.S. History.
Here are a few things students in this country will not find in their history books but that students from certain other countries may know for a fact:
a) Our revolution was inspired by the work of the French Enlightenment philosophers (not the essays of John Locke).
b) We won that war largely because the British commanders were slow and blundering (not because of the wisdom and determination of George Washington).
c) What we thought of as a revolution was for many inhabitants of British North America an extended civil war, in which many were forced into exile.
d) After Gen. Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown in 1781, the Spanish and French fleets opened full-scale war with the British in the Caribbean.
Those with a particular interest in American history should find the whole review well worth reading.