Hey Pandas, What Historical Facts Should Be Taught More Thoroughly? (Closed)

This might be a bit controversial, but the history of religion. In sixth grade one of my teachers did something like this for Halloween, and it was one of my most interesting lessons ever in school. I get that schools don't want religion interfering with school, but I feel like teaching the concepts of different religions and how they came to be could really benefit kids when interacting with people of a different religion.

The difference between socialism and communism. What is a social democracy and how does it work. But also: forms of government: Autocracy
Oligarchy, Parliamentary democracy, Constitutional Democracy, Dictatorship,
Military dictatorship, Theocracy, to name a few. How can a democracy turn into a dictatorship.

I feel that the details of subjects like slavery in the Americas and the Holocaust were glossed over. The textbook and curriculum focused more on names and dates than on the human aspect. The full horror of those events is beyond the scope of what can be taught in a classroom, but students should at the least be encouraged to think of it as the suffering of real, living, breathing people, not just facts and figures.

Any fact is nice. A fact by itself is trivia, not history.

But what is the impact of the fact? What did it change? Why did it happen? Who was involved? Why do people argue about it, and what are the conflicting views? Are there other facts that are in conflict with the original fact? What are misconceptions about that fact?

Native American History in America. Most history classes start with the arrival of the European la as our history, but we should be aware of who and what came before that. We need to be aware that we were not the first ones here.

Prehistoric fact not hsitorical but still important. Most modern research shows that stone age people lived in very egalitarian societies with no classism and barely any separation of gender roles. People still have the idea of prehistoric men as brutes that were the providers, hunters and leaders of the group. With women being simply mothers that needed to be fed and protected. But it is very clear by now that women had a very important role in their society; they hunted, theybgathwred (and plants were more oftne than not the main food), they created art, they were shamans and leaders, artisans, tool makers.

There is nothing in our past or biology that justifies sexism. Nothing inherent or biological in the ideas that we have about masculinity and femininity.

Vikings did NOT wear horned helmets! As a norwegian-american I can tell you it bothers me sooooo much whenever I watch a documentary in school or something about viking and I see those things. I don't know why it bothers me so much, it just does-

Middle Ages. The current concept of the middle ages that people teach nowadays is archaic (people from that era=dumb, prejudiced people with silly ideas).

As someone who once got in trouble for adding an interesting factoid to a subject we were covering in History. Let's just say we stop glossing over and whitewashing history and tell the actual facts? Like how gay the Greeks and Romans were, how HORRIBLE black chattel slavery was compared to say Roman slavery. The Irish Slaves of America. What Eugenics is and it's roots in racism. Why communism isn't the problem, neither is capitalism, it's the people running the s**t-show. I could go on but this is getting long and ranty.

Ancient Greeks had vending machines. 12 th century had fully functioning automatons that could play music centuries before Leonardo. Tesla was awesome we lost years thanks to Edison and his goons

All of them. Every history book I see from the schools is full of misinformation or outright lies. Especially American history. Haven't seen a schoolbook yet that teaches about the US's attempt to commit genocide during the "Indian Wars". Or the fact that there are still "dissident camps"- like the ones Japanese-Americans were forced into after Pearl Harbor-all over the country. Stop trying to cover the dirt in glory, and teach the actual history. The students can handle it.

The 20th century was basically filled with genocides. Starting with Armenia and going through the Holocaust, to Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rowanda. This needs to be taught about.

Pretty much any fact, that isn't in the field of politics or war.
I live in a city, that got pretty rich by trading with salt.
How did the babylonians water their crops? I have no idea who invented the telegraph. What was the first mention able music festival?

The story of Texas. Mexicans invited Americans in, Texans came, but insisted on bringing slaves. When Mexico decided to make slavery illegal, Texans got all upset. While not the only reason Texas decided to rebel, it was one of the top three, if not the top two. (Texas also closer to New Orleans than other Mexican ports, so they wanted to trade with the US). Texas rebelled, got their ass kicked by Santa Anna, Santa Anna got complacent and split his army into three parts, Texans managed to defeat the smaller armies before they could rejoin. Texas eventually joined the US, where slavery was legal still. Twenty years later, the Civil war happened and slavery finally became illegal in Texas.

Note Texas always remembers how they had immigrated to Mexico and then stole the land. So they fear Mexicans immigrating to Texas and stealing it back.

When I was going to primary school history was all about death and numbers. How long wars lasted, how many died, how many horses tanks airplanes ect. It wasn't until I was in my thirties that I started learning about the living in history on my own. How they traveled, how they cooked, what they wore and how they communicated with each other. This should be the history tought to the young, not just death but life.

Vaccine history and pandemic history. The amount of antivaxxers and Karens walking around is terrible and people need to be so much more well informed.

Anything to do with the history of America and why some things were never taught! Why take the land of the Native Americans and kill then move them somewhere else? Why slavery when there were plenty of other people already here to do the work? Why, glaze over the dedication of the government to not tell us the truth about things like aliens snd governmental spending… the list is endless.

A lot of people we learn about in school were actually gay and no one talks about it... I don't care if its contraversial, it should be more common knowledge that gay people (and other members of the LGBTQ+ community) have been around for WAY longer than the 1960s.

The Salem Witch Trials and the darker sides to religions. It really annoys me how people don't get told about it and how Christianity and other mainstream religions weren't always what they were shined up to be. I'm not saying it's bad to be Christian, but there is some parts of it that need to be taught more instead of just hidden away.

How all cultures have traded, mixed and fight with each other. Any intelligent person who studies and understands the history of our species cannot be racist. Look at Spain. We were preindoeuropean (like the basque language might still be), then indoeuropean (celts and iberians, tartessos), with massive influence of Greece, Cartago or the Fenicians. Then we became part of the roman empire (that was really multicultural). Then we got invaded from the north by germanic tribes and from the south by north africans (which brought inmense knowledge and advances to Spain). We have genes from all over europe and the mediterranean.

And while some of the changes were violent they all made us the people who we are. They brough new food, new languages, new gods, new intentions, old lost knowledge.... How anybody that understands this can hate people from other countries?

My fathers family has a lot of muslim and jewish blood and look very mediterranean. One of his friends is related to us and yet he is the biggest biggot to ever exist. I will never understand it.