Yep. And at least in my school district, in 3rd grade they study local history as well.
I did CA history in 4th grade, and it gave me a lifelong aversion to missions. I did get to show off my mom’s replica of Drake’s plaque that turned out to be fake.
IMO, one of the really great things about homeschooling is that I won’t have to build missions with my kids unless I want to. I’m leaning towards gold rush re-enactment instead, since we’re in the middle of gold rush country here.
Good advice. The only thing Texans are more willing to defend more than themselves and their families is the state of Texas itself. I grew up a mile from the Texas border and my mother is from Texas. She has already started sending my young (Massachusetts) daughters the Texas indoctrination books. “A” is for Austin, our state capital, also for the Armadillos beside the road. “B” is for Beaumont…
I like Texas but damn do those people love their state.
Yeah, lots of other states have state history classes, but when Texas has them it’s just another excuse to toot our own horns (or pop a boner I guess). No need to try to defend that :rolleyes:
I was. 
Fat lot of good it’s done me, though. Haven’t lived in West Virginia in 16 years.
I was on the “honors” track, and had a “Survey of American History and Ohio” unit tucked into what was otherwise a world geography year-long course during the seventh grade (1971-72). I remember doing my report on “Ohio Cities” the night before it was due (it helped that the school day for most seventh-graders, me included, didn’t begin until 10:56 a.m.*) and using the American Automobile Association’s Midwestern Tour Book as one of my sources.
Georgia history in the 8th grade as well. As I ecall, the class was “Georgia History and Civics,” because we got instruction regarding the current operations of state and local governments as well.
I remember having to take North Carolina state history in around 7th grade. I think we took a few field trips, too… once to “Old Salem” in Winston Salem, and another time to the Vance Birthplace (Zebulon Baird Vance - don’t remember exactly who he was without looking it up now, though).
There are 100 counties in North Carolina. The county I’m from (Yancey) is the last on the list, alphabetically.
I was inspired by your post to Google his name, and learned that he served as Governor of North Carolina (two nonconsecutive stretches) and as U.S. Senator. Interesting trivia: When Vance was practicing law, one of his clients was Tom Dula, immortalized as Tom Dooley in a song that the Kingston Trio popularized nearly a century after Dula was convicted of murder.
Colorado history was sprinkled through my elementary & junior high years. I remember very little of the class time, but I vividly recall approximately 47 bazillion field trips to the Molly Brown House.
Colorado Civics was a mandatory social studies class my junior year. We called it “Voting 101” and rolled our eyes a lot, but it was very strange to move away and not know how the (state) government worked.
Colorado (Jeffco, specifically) class of 82.
Thank you. I now have a mental image of Bill Murray playing Alfalfa from the Our Gang comedies.
I grew up in Iowa, and we did, indeed have a state history class. There was plenty of content. Enough to fill a whole text book even.
Did they mention that Herbert Hoover was the first president born west of the Mississippi River, in Iowa?
We never had to build a model of anything for Pennsylvania history class (4th grade, 1978-79), but I remember having to draw the wampum belt famously given to William Penn when he made a treaty with the Delaware Indians. A college friend who went to grade school in a better funded district said his class glued plastic beads onto cardboard instead of just drawing it. Pampered suburban Philly kids, I’m telling you…
Fourth grade was PA history, fifth was American history, and sixth grade was world history. We never had to memorize all the counties in Pennsylvania, though our fifth grade teacher did insist we learn all fifty states and their capitals for a quiz. I got 100% and promptly forgot maybe 35 of the capitals 
Sigonella? I was there in '83 - on the base, not the school. On a deployment from NAS Jacksonville.
Anyway, I don’t recall learning Maryland history specifically, but I went to Catholic school thru 8th grade, so I don’t know what the public schools taught. I’m pretty sure we never touched on it in high school.
In FL, when my daughter was in (I think) 4th grade, they learned Florida history. I only remember that because she did a report on the Springs of Florida, including a huge salt-ceramic model of the state, with the major springs labeled. We carried that thing to Virginia and back.
She was in Virginia for middle school, and I don’t remember if she learned VA history or not. She hated history class, much preferring science, math, and chorus.
Yep. 1969-70. Then we went to Pax River.