History textbooks in schools often skip over the messy parts—the local resistance, the economic motives, the voices of the colonized. I remember learning about colonial expansion as a series of brave explorers and noble missions, but later found out my own great-grandfather was forced off his land during a land grab that never made it into the curriculum. Should we demand that national history include these uncomfortable truths, even if it makes citizens feel less proud? The debate isn't about erasing achievements, but about whether a sanitized version does more harm than good to our understanding of who we are.