20 of the Most Important Events That Aren’t Taught in History Class

Let’s all cut history teachers some slack. They have you for maybe an hour, five days a week, and there’s just so much history. Even if you focus solely on your own country, as so many history curricula do, it’s probably existed for hundreds of years. You just can’t cram all of that into double-digit hours per semester.

That doesn’t mean there aren’t some glaring holes in your average syllabus, though. Whether it’s atrocities committed by your country’s heroes or governments that your local historians would prefer to sweep under the rug or global events that are way too important to gloss over, there are lots of stories never told in history class that should be, like those brought up when one Redditor asked r/AskReddit, “What isn’t taught in history class but should be?”