Should schools teach the dark side of American History to children?

[Kaiden]

It's not that they don't teach a why, it's that they only teach one why. Why is not an knowable truth. It's something that one has to interpret from the evidence given, not to mention the literary theory that goes behind reading into texts from any given historical era. History isn't static - it's a dialogue between historians and their interpretations of what happened and why.

This isnt true for most of American History. Recent history(past 150 years) is pretty set in stone. As you start to get further back in history things open up for interpretation. We don't know as many facts about what actually happened. People try to make assumptions based on the few things we do know. Thats when historians start to debate why or how things happened.