In this day of Social Media there seems to be a lot of pressure to sanitize history or even re-write it. More than ever the need for accurate history books that tell history as it really happened need to be available to everyone. Discuss events in history on this site, and indeed any other issue that effects our understanding of both the past and the present
Times change
A lot of history covers events that are considered bad by today’s standards that at one time were considered perfectly acceptable. Attitudes change with time, events that were once considered acceptable in the past become unacceptable at a later date.