Imagine most of millennials will become seniors and their drand children go to high school and college.
What will they learn about covid-19 and 2020 year ?
What will be the lessons for the future generations ?
How will they feel about it ?
How a History Textbook Would Describe 2020 So FarHistory never ends. But history textbooks must. As deadlines for new editions loom, every textbook writer lurches to a sudden stop. The last chapter always ends in uncertainty: unfinished and unresolved. I’ve experienced this many times myself, as a co-author on several history textbooks.
By now it seems clear that we are all living through a major turning point in history, one that will be studied for years to come. Future textbook authors will write entries on the year 2020, revise them, and revise them some more with each new edition. What follows is an attempt at—literally—a first draft of history: what I might write if I were wrapping up the last chapter of a high-school history textbook right now.
https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2020/07/history-textbook-entry-year-2020/613885/