@TheBrewer You are missing the point. The US is much more expansive than most other European Nations (US: 3.797 million square miles, UK: 94,058, France: 248,573, Denmark: 16,574, etc), meaning that there are many more region and towns and each of those towns has it's own local history. Additionally, the US has been at war for 93% of it's history and peoples brains get more excited by things like war and killing than about agricultural methods.
But I will concede that a lot of the museums in the US probably talk about things that happened in the local area before the US controlled that area or even existed, that other museums cover extremely small things, and that museums will sometimes have to really reach to explain how their area is related to the history they are covering.
For example there is a museum a mile's drive from my school devoted to a single Spanish conquistador who explored in that area in the 1500s. Within walking distance of that is another small museum devoted to a lighthouse that used to be operational in the 1800s.
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@TheBrewer You are missing the point. The US is much more expansive than most other European Nations (US: 3.797 million square miles, UK: 94,058, France: 248,573, Denmark: 16,574, etc), meaning that there are many more region and towns and each of those towns has it's own local history. Additionally, the US has been at war for 93% of it's history and peoples brains get more excited by things like war and killing than about agricultural methods.
But I will concede that a lot of the museums in the US probably talk about things that happened in the local area before the US controlled that area or even existed, that other museums cover extremely small things, and that museums will sometimes have to really reach to explain how their area is related to the history they are covering.
For example there is a museum a mile's drive from my school devoted to a single Spanish conquistador who explored in that area in the 1500s. Within walking distance of that is another small museum devoted to a lighthouse that used to be operational in the 1800s.