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History is a subject that some people may find interesting, and some may feel as if it is useless knowledge of facts. Although learning history does provide one with knowledge, the reason for history is much more than simple fact. Learning history is vital for the choices we make in our future, and if history is not being taught, or instilled into the minds of our youth then the lack of knowledge could be detrimental to the progression in their future. We study history to understand the thoughts of our ancestors, and how they dealt with moral and ethical dilemmas. Although the choices made were not always positive, or progressive, they still provide us with helpful lessons on how to assess the problems we now face in the present. Therefore, schools should not purchase textbooks that offer revised or alternative histories of historical events. Offering alternative or revised editions leave students with information that could contain bias information of past historical events. Deprivation of important historical events could lead to a greater risk of repetition of the same events that lead to disaster in the past. History helps us change, and contributes to moral understanding. Every part of history needs to be studied in depth, and a lesson needs to be learned as well as taught. If certain lessons such as slavery, The Holocaust, and the World Wars were just simply absent from our history books what could be said about our future? Would these disastrous events reoccur, and be more devastating than ever before? How can one assess and deal with a problem they have never faced?

History is repetitive and that requires our constant vigilance to thus pay attention (Stearns). It is proven that in history those who do not st...

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...every detail along with offering sources that are truthful and have not been deprived of useful information can deter the negative aspects assessed above. In doing so we will then be offering our youth the education they deserve and not the education that some may believe may be “better”.

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Cain, Helena. "The importance of knowing history."

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Chin, Johnathan. "Importance of History."

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"How the Texas Textbook Revision Came to Be."

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Kreis, Steven. "The history guide."

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Maiman, Bruce. N.p., 03/14/2010. Web. 11 Dec 2011. .

Stearn, Peter. "Why study history?."

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