🔍 Bias in History
Understand how historical records are shaped by who wrote them.
🔥 Warm Up
Pick any historical event you learned about in school. Who do you think wrote the version you learned?
"Every history has an author. And every author has a perspective."
🤖 The Activity
🧩 The Twist
No easy answer. The point is to think carefully.
AI's historical knowledge reflects the sources it was trained on — which reflect the biases of those who wrote them. AI can reproduce historical bias confidently. Always check who wrote the sources AI is drawing on.
History Analyst Badge 🔍
Understood how bias shapes historical records — and learned to ask whose perspective is missing
Parent Notes
▼Historical critical thinking — one of the deepest forms of media literacy.
- Whose perspective was missing from the history you learned?
- Is there such a thing as unbiased history?
- What does knowing about historical bias change about how you read history?
This session can be powerful for children who have noticed that their own history is often absent from mainstream accounts.
Handle with sensitivity and genuine curiosity. There are no easy answers here.