Important point. You can’t help but view history from your own perspective, but you’ll never understand it unless you push yourself to see events as the people involved in them would have seen them. You can look for people in that time whose views correspond to our modern perspective, you may or may not find them. If you do, it’s useful to ask why these people saw what others of their time did not. And to notice if they were respected, or ignored, or persecuted, and why.
Sounds similar to Monica - teaching history to the college students in “Yellowstone”.
The issue is anachronistic criticism, such that a long ago era is evaluated by 21st century standards, woke standards in particular. It is not a new problem for History, which has been crippled by it at least since the 1970s New Left takeover of the universities,