U.S. History Test Scores Stagnate As Education Secretary Arne Duncan Seeks 'Plan B'

History prevents you from voting with ignorance, and therefore, it is a public good for this reason. For example, history tells us that hundreds of thousands of jobs were being lost on a monthly basis before President Obama took over; now a modest increase this past month is decried as failure. History tells us that the United States was in a greater depression in 2008 (before Obama was voted into office) than the Great Depression of the 1930s; now that danger is all but diminished despite the Right saying that the "crisis" continues. History tells us that having no safety net--no social security, no labor rights/uni­ons, no medicare for the elderly--a­ll of these problems helped cause the Great Depression­: the President looks to preserve this safety net, the Right wing wants to destroy it based on a false historical argument of "small government­".



Understand­ing history allows us to put our lives and the circumstan­ces in which we live in perspectiv­e and helps us understand what we stand for. History is important because with each day that passes, we add a new day to our past and have a future that is still to be determined­.
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