Survey Finds Teenagers Ignorant on Basic History and Literature Questions
By SAM DILLON
Published: February 27, 2008
Fewer than half of American teenagers who were asked basic history and literature questions in a phone survey knew when the Civil War was fought, and one in four said Columbus sailed to the New World some time after 1750, not in 1492.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/27/us...3b4&ei=5087%0A