In the film Faubourg Treme, one historian discussed how textbooks tend to portray African American history in a simplistic and segmented way, while in reality the history is more dynamic and complex. This made me think about how the way history is written has a huge impact on future generations. If something is omitted from history textbooks, future generations won’t have any way to know about it, unless they research themselves. History is always warped a little through the lens of the historian, and only the people who actually lived through the moment know the unfiltered truth. I think it is important to teach students that textbooks aren’t always an unbiased source of fact.