Old Grade School History Books

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I was going through a stack of old books at the school library the other day, and I found a copy of a history book for elementary students from the mid to late 80s I think. Flipping through it, I took some quick pictures of various topics in it just to see how it compared to history books in the current year.

Does anyone have any copies of grade school history books from their time in school, or perhaps ones from their children? I'm interested to see how much our perception of the world has changed since then, or how a book written for American students in the 80s was different from a book written for students in the UK.

The attached image was written for 2nd or 3rd grade level students. Reading stuff like this again reminded me of how I used to wonder about the unanswered questions these books left out because 6 and 7 year old students probably couldn't understand a lot at play during history.