It's easier to understand when you know that the decisions that Americans and others have made over time were never designed to be covered and taught in a Capitalized Theory of A Particular Time Period academic subject.
Historians likes overarching themes and stories that make everything easier to understand, it does not like "History is just one damned thing after another."
Historians likes overarching themes and stories that make everything easier to understand, it does not like "History is just one damned thing after another."