"Black people may have started Memorial Day. Whites erased it from history."

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7. Excellent article and another example of hidden history.

I don’t believe that every event in history can be taught because there would not be time, but I do believe that too much of our history taught in schools focuses on white accomplishments with too little mention of minorities. And now Republicans are trying to erase the little bit of non-white history that is taught.

I also think that history textbooks focus too much on events and not enough on the context surrounding them—the people, their motivations, beliefs, traditions, social conditions, etc. at the time. We don’t seem to do much with cause-effect analyses that require students (and adults) to identify the consequences of actions and decide whether they are positive or negative so the negative ones will hopefully not be repeated. That’s how you learn from history. Republicans seem to have missed those lessons.