Too true. For a good example, watch tonight's Jeopardy with top college students vying for 50K.
Stuff we lived through that they don't know happened is astonishing.
Given the level of teaching of historyin our high schools, I'm no surprised. The youngest, about 10 years ago, didn't even know what Nam was, never mind Korea. Some very, very vague knowledge of WWII, and absolutely no concept of HUAC or Tailgunner Joe, amongst others.
The current college student crop, including those studying history, seem to share the lack.
Charlie Self "Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance." Ambrose Bierce