I was reading and watching some news last night and after the session it suddenly hit me that some of this stuff might even make the history books. Of course, the assumption is that students will still be studying history in the future, I started wondering how much of what affects today will actually be recorded for future study. Obviously, all the Presidents make it in the books but in the case of Trump versus Hillary or Trump versus Biden, what will be said or will it be real history or some spin-off? What will be said about Jan 6th or possible election fraud? Then we have the Smollet case which has reached every citizen in the U.S. Will that too appear or will he be deemed to be unworthy of such an honor? I mean, I’m almost sure that the year George Floyd was killed and the toppling of a major portion of our statues will make it or maybe they will be passed by as just incidents of civil unrest with no actual names. Will Epstein’s “suicide” and his cohort Maxwell make it or should the fall of a major pedaphile ring be one of those things that won’t be in the historical section of the library? Roe versus Wade made it but if it’s repealed, will that too make history? Will the foundation of Antifa or BLM be in the logs and studied or will they be shuffled aside? Martin L. King’s dream speech made it but I wonder if the creation of CRT will be recognized? Some things will make it but shouldn’t.. Some things should but won’t. Wiki will pick up almost anything but are there some things even they will not record? Dunno. What will our future generations read and think of this day and time in history and what are some things that will be, shouldn’t be or will not but should be in the books?
I think only major events will be highlighted in history books as they are now and it depends on who writes the history. For example, I’m reading a book now on an African American regiment in Maryland during the War Between The States. It includes which and how recruits joined; trained and their movements in conjunction with other regiments. This info wasn’t taught to my knowledge anywhere, but it was recorded and you would have to dig to find it. If events are buried and not taught, that will skew public perception which might be the goal in some cases.
Of all the things mentioned, I think January 6th is the only thing that will make it in the history books. Depending on what happens next, it will be either one sentence (the beginning of something), or two (a blip on the radar screen).
Another little wonder. With the exception of the election of the first black President, B.H. Obama, I can’t think of much that will go into American history during the Millennial generation. Maybe Clinton’s near impeachment might be there but will the ordeal in the oval office with what’s her name (Monica) and the sequential episode of lying to Congress be there? I mean, the reason for being impeached is paramount but the reason for the reason might be withheld.
After a lot of thought I can see why there’s not much folks have to say about what students will learn about us in the future. There’s not much there. The Vietnam War or so called police action is already in the books but the Detroit riots of 1967 undoubtedly aren’t. The 9/11/01 attack on the Twin Towers will be there but will the U.S. involvement in the toppling of Saddam Hussein’s regime be there? Because it’s still unfinished business, the war in Afghanistan might be shrugged off in high school texts. Will 20 years of our involvement be lost as just another unfortunate time when people died warring against each other? I guess what I’m trying to reveal is that even though the study of history is supposed to teach us what is behind us and how we can avoid present day travails by not repeating the bad parts of history, I fear that future generations will have very little to base a comparative study.
What is happening today will be available for future history books. The important thing to realize, as we (former) teachers know, is that high schoos teachers were controlled in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and communist East Germany. (I posted a note about the latter a few weeks ago.don't choose the histmany, the Soviet Union, and the German Democratic Republic, aka East Germany. I posted a note about the latter a few weeks ago. ory books for their classes, politicians do. Here in Florida, the governor and his minions are trying to CONTROL WHAT IS TAUGHT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FL, the state's flagship university. This is reminiscent of how universities in Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, and Communist East Germany controlled what happened at their universities. I posted a not about the latter a few weeks ago.
Why don't you expound on what the Governor is trying to have taught? I don't know what you find so egregious about what he wants.
It's what he DOESN'T want taught. A prof's syllabus must not have the words 'critical' and "race" in it. Recently two profs were warned NOT to testify in a court case.
In the study of American history, we can readily see where there were extreme racial bias’s. Everyone agrees, the Civil Rights bill was written after much turmoil and can see the consequences of yesterday’s world and take it upon themselves to change for the better. To teach CRT is nothing more than a psychological way to control an outcome by suppressing the overall success we’ve had against racism. Moreover, it produces racism by falsely denoting a race’s superiority over another race. So, in light of that assessment, how can you possibly think that deleting that type of teaching will be a negative thing in Florida’s history? To me, CRT should fall along the wayside the same as Ebonics.
I might also add that the minions tried to stop the medical college from publishing covid statistics.
Critical Race Theory is an area of social and constitutional law studies that has been around for some time. Go to Amazon and count the number of books published by professors, then go to Google Scholar, and see what comes up in scholarly journals. I checked with the local public library, and yes, there are books there too about it.
Soooo, yeah, there are books about it just as there are books about everything else one can readily imagine but I wouldn’t think it is such a hallmark item that it’s going to make history.
That would likely have been a good thing all along, wouldn't it ? A religious relatively isolated group about a year ago was asked how their communities, ranging from a dozen to a few thousand in different states and countries, how they avoided the pandemic /cvd. Their answer was distinctly honest, short and direct. "We don't have television".
Or not at all. It only leads it seems from and to more lies, more devastation, destruction, and more death no matter when and where