No offense or anything but that's sort of different. People need to pay their bills because people need to make money in order to make a living. How is understanding the revolutionary war, or remembering who all the presidents were necessary in life?
Why vote if you don't understand the history of why laws are there.
Seriously ,that's very sad.I will die y life will be in some passage of a book ,not noticed by I die knowing I have set courses of men who may change,shape my country.
My love for history has lead me to want to learn about subjects I hated.
Theatre,drama.music
Why do you recall 9 11,that's history,move on ,you were there.100 years from now some teen will say that about that event.
My towns formation has the back drop of these events I can touch,talk to people who there.
The depression, my fil remembers
Ww2,local base,vets who trained here
Jim crow laws,segregation, old blacks still cringe at thoughts of that and struggle lettimg go because of what they went through, some can see and speak up and say it wasn't all whites. These I have met
Older events but none alive .
Ww1,civil war ,indian wars spanish colony era,roaring 20s.photo is a building of that time. The oldest theatre here had no sound, silent films,then was at first a play Wright theatre with orchestra pit .so yes, history shapes us,we shape it.