I don't know what happened to my reply to Shawn, but I will make
this one briefer. Basically, I said that there was nothing wrong
with the distribution Shawn posted for vsb, and that questions about
famous historians probably do not have a place in a high school
tournament. I also had a question, which I hope you don't find
condescending -- do intro US history college courses generally use
high-school-style multi-author textbooks, or do they read monographs
by single historians? (I clepped) If the latter is the case, that
would mean that most students do get some exposure to the most
famous American historians, at least.
Dargan