History. What exactly is history? When I asked my computer to define the word it gave me the following:

History – Noun

1. The study of past events, particularly in human affairs;
2. The whole series of past events connected with someone or something;
3. A continuous, typically chronological, record of important or public events or of a particular trend or institution

World history, American history, South Carolina history, your history, my history, etc. Everyone has history. Everything has history. My history tells the story of where I have been. It is an all-inclusive word, which would tell the story of my entire life. An absolute history of my life would include everything I have done, everywhere I have been, every word I have spoken, every thought I have entertained – everything. Nothing would be left out of a total, absolute, historical record of me.

So, what if I decide one day that I don’t like my history? What if there is an incident in my past that I would rather forget about, and one which I don’t want anyone to ever know about? How do I get rid of it? How can I erase it from my history?

Maybe I could move to a new location where no one knows me. I could then make up my own history. I could change my name and make up a whole new story about the “new” me. People in my new town would know what I make up about me. My history would become anything I want it to be. And no one would know the difference.

Would all that effort to change my history really change it? Of course not! My history is my history. I might hide some of the facts of my past from others, but my history is what it is. I might choose to never speak of some of the events of my past, but it is still my history. My history, your history, world history, American history – they all tell us where we have been.

Now, let’s think about this in relation to our nation: The United States of America. There is a concentrated effort by many to replace our history with one of their own making. They want the historical records of our heritage to be changed to reflect what they want coming generations to believe about the development of the United States.

The outward manifestation of this movement is openly seen in the removal of statues of historical figures from our past. Out of sight, out of mind! They want no physical displays of our past. Only those statues that fit into their revised history will be left standing. And then, to further strengthen their cause, the textbooks used to teach our children will have to be rewritten to reflect their revised history of our country. They will never stop in their endeavors until their agenda to methodically revise and rewrite our history is complete.

So, the answer to the question, “Where have we been?”, will be vastly different fifty years from now from what it is today. Then, it will reflect the “revised history” that is being shaped by today’s historical revisionists. Does that mean our history will actually have changed? Absolutely not! History is history. It is a record of past events, and past events cannot be changed. We can’t go back in time and stop certain events from taking place: they happened, and history is the record of those events.

But what about coming generations? How will they know where we have been if the records have been changed? They won’t! Oh, they will know “history”, but it will be a record of a radically different history – one which has been manufactured by those who would erase our past and replace it with one of their own making.

This has far-reaching ramifications that will affect every area of life in coming generations. One area of grave importance is in the history of language. That will be the topic for my next blog: the revision of language, and how it can change the historical landscape.

For those of us who believe that a true historical record of our past is important for future generations, we need to make every effort to stand against this modern-day movement to change it. I realize it is an up-hill battle. It seems that those who are in positions that enable them to implement these changes are using those positions to force unwanted change on the public. And the public, for the most part, stands by helplessly, with no power to stand against them.

This is all the more reason to stand up and speak up. Your voice, my voice, needs to be heard. Whatever avenues are open to us should be used to take a stand. Whether we feel we can make a difference or not, we need to do what we can to stand for truth in the passing down of history to the next generation. If not, we will soon forget where we have been. Let’s not allow that to happen on our watch.