If only there was a subject which sought to discover the truth about things that have happened.

Where students are taught to critically evaluate different, opposing narratives for trustworthyness, to seek evidence, to gain wisdom from previous example.

#ChooseHistory https://twitter.com/sebdance/status/1346961889939529731
"But he that desires to look into the truth of things done, and which (according to the condition of humanity) may be done again, or at least their like, shall find enough herein to make him think it profitable."

Thucydides
A nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. It must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgements in creating their own future.

FDR
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