The way school teaches history is flawed. We teach history from an American point of view, and we teach everything as America was always in the right, such as the Trail of Tears.  We hardly pay any attention to any other countries’ history or any other important events in history. We don’t learn about the Reichstag Fire and Röhm purge (Night of the Long Knives)- two important days that are considered to be The days Hitler took over Germany.
In the history system we hardly talk about genocides in the mandatory classes, we only talk about them in electives. “In humane geography do you talk about genocides? Yes. What genocides do you talk about? We talk about the Cambodia genocide, we do cover the genocide of Rwandan genocide,” said Ronnie Faraj. We should talk about genocides more because we do a single unit in English 1 and that’s the only time you talk about them in any mandatory class.
History is never true. We never see the opposing sides’ views on a war or why they did something. We only see America’s side so we never get to truly understand why Hitler did what he did, or why Joseph Stalin did what he did, or what led any leader mentioned in the history books to do what they did. While talking about this a quote came up a couple of times by Napoleon Bonaparte “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” This is shown very well with how WW1 ended, we blamed Germany for everything because they were the only losing country that was still the same after the war because everything else got dissolved/disbanded.
Schools need to rethink how they teach history and how important some aspects of history are to some people.  I feel like for the history system we should have both US history class and a European history class that goes over the same time period as the US history covers.