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The point is, they actually removed Goldwater too, but you can’t rule up your left wing audience with that one. And he was far more influential to US politics than Hillary.

She is noteworthy because she was the first woman to top a major party ticket... but if I were to list out 100 people as required learning for american history. That would not likely be in the top 100, and if it did it would be way down the list.

Hm. I would bet dollars to donuts that they're still mentioned, but only as a side note (got beat in election, this Pres's SoS), and not as an actual main article/section. I'm pretty sure my history textbook had a chart of all the Pres elections, but we definitely didn't study any of the election losers.

And current events usually aren't a history subject. A good history teacher will include some content on their own, but as I recall, our textbook ended with maybe a short chapter on 9/11 and mostly said anything since was too current to really look at properly from a historical perspective.

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Of course, Civics really needs to be separated out from history and social studies and made into its own separate year-long class. Our populace is way too ignorant on how government works (ours/others) and just basic civics knowledge.