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As an academic I thought you would be aware of what History teachers do...
The don't make up History.
They don't edit history.
They don't second guess history.
They teach history as it happened, unless of course they are a liberal in which case they teach whatever lies suit the agenda.
They also teach the reasons why things happened. Helping to understand the consequences of actions as well as what was avoided/changed/altered when a particular action was taken. This is how you learn from history. Your strategy of teaching straight names and dates is responsible for a lot of the dumbing down of the education system.
Let's raise the bar.
Of course, none of this is true. Every story has a "telling" and history is a story. Historians emphasize different things--they even leave things out. They explain events in different ways and draw different relationships between events and people. The idea that history is an objective study as is science (or even CAN be) is silly.
Listen to an American and a Brit explain the causes and results of the American Revolution. They will both be totally accurate, but they'll tell very different stories. The same is true for pretty much any historical event.