History is important as in fake news really is a crime. That being said, people dealing with the topic are way too irresponsible and stupid. Usually people good in stem are also more honest in other topics like History, and Stem should be, imo, a prereq to a topic like this so the idiots and frauds be kept out the most.
My brother went to a really good college and paid for working part-time in a grocery store. The problem began with deep pockets government.
Most of it is learned after collage by those guys who pick up a couple old books and start to read. They then realize that most of what they learned as history was actually propaganda. Which means a great deal of time, money and effort was wasted.