We used to call that History when I was in school.
We had American History, World History and Government classes in high school in the 60-70’s in Ohio. We were products of parents that went through the Depression and WW2. A lot of our generation went through the Korean world and Viet Nam. Most of our young people in school today weren’t even born yet when 9/11 happened. If they aren’t taught in school about these things and our nations history they won’t know what truly bad times are.