Whose are told and whose remain in the margins?
Whose are told: For as long as I can remember when learning "History" in my Kinder through 12th grade education, I remember hearing the same stories every year, but they would add a little bit more information with each time it was mentioned. In my opinion, the History we have been learning is very exclusive to many different cultures, races, identities, and backgrounds. We have heard the "successful" stories and the individuals who were on the "winning" side of the argument, law, and wars but not the ones on the other side of it. Much of the information we learn is dealing with a straight white middle/high class man in the power position, whereas females, people of color, individuals with disabilities, sexual orientation ( besides being straight) were the individuals who were seen as less and had less freedom than the “majority.” Who remains: From the very start of time, people of...