American history as taught outside the U.S.

That can vary by teacher. In my middle school, we spent several weeks learning about the First Nations, mapping the original locations of groups, learning about their cultural practices. But it is usually the case that middle school courses focus on history through the US Civil War / Reconstruction, and then stop. It's high school courses that are supposed to pick up the rest of the 19th century into the 20th, though they don't always do so.

Ooo!  Will he bring his kite too?

From the U.K. 1970s perspective:

U.S. History taught to me in school - absolutely nothing. Your nation and your continent did not exist, sorry!
Since the last five hundred years or so of British history is a semi-accidental but very successful Evil Quest For Global Supremacy and a massively successful Evil Capitalist Industrial Revolution, it made teaching our history difficult enough given the trendyness of the decade and the national liberal shame about the whole enterprise!

So I remember being taught politically 'safe' subjects:
What The Romans Really Did For Us (though if I wanted to be impish I might suggest they gave us the idea of establishing Global Supremacy and Industrial Capitalism!)
Henry VIII and his active but less than successful love life.
Something else probably but presumably not very interesting because I can't remember it now.

I learned other history from the movies:
We Won The War.
You Won The War for us.
Germans were BAD.
Zulus were brave, British soldiers were braver. (Whose land was it anyway? Best not mentioned.)
Cowboys were GOOD, "Indians" were BAD. (Whose land was it anyway? Best not mentioned.)
etc.

I hope things are better now, but as I recall hearing a few years back that U.K. schools were managing to teach about WWII without a single mention of Churchill, I'm not so sure. At least recent 'Doctor Who' would have filled in that gap!