Learning something new...from Doctor Who?

[acroyear]

In high school American History, even for an AP class, a LOT was left out.  I knew about the depression, I thought.

I knew about the crash.

I knew about the general starvation.

I knew about the 1-2 punch of the dustbowl in Kansas compounding things.

I knew about the election of FDR, the New Deal, the alphabet soup of acronyms that hadn't been topped 'til Reagan.

I knew about how the "9 old men" of the Supreme Court (then all appointed by Republicans) had shot down half the new deal as unconstitutional (and rightly so in a number of cases).

I knew about how the road to recovery faltered in '38 with the loss of some of those programs and the coming tensions in the European market.

I knew about how the war led to the recovery.

But I didn't know and had never heard of Hooverville before, especially not one in the middle of Central Park.

Doctor Who taught me something this week.  Shame the Brits know more about our own history than we teach our own kids...