In 2101, the last surviving history department in an American university finally merged with the literature department, reflecting the perception, universal by this date, that all points of view were equally valid, and that history based on actual verifiable facts is only a tool of the power-hungry phallocentric reactionary elite oppressors. Since that date, history was subsumed under fiction. All history texts were moved to the fiction section in libraries. Historians and educators had finally realized that, in our enlightened multiculturalist society, everything that happened throughout history was offensive in one way or another to somebody, and after new laws were passed forbidding the teaching of any material harmful to children's self-esteem, it was universally agreed that the teaching of history should be abandoned entirely to protect the children from the harmful memories of the past.
The reduced cognitive burden for students that resulted from the elimination of history from the curriculum, when combined with a thorough program of self-awareness enhancement and positive self-image reinforcement by our enlightened teams of licensed professional cooperative learning facilitators, resulted in unprecedently high levels of self-esteem for all of our students. A few malcontents pointed out, however, that one could not actually be sure the high levels of self-esteem were unprecedented, since no one actually knew anything about the past other than that things were really awful back then.
Ten years later, in 2111, a new law mandated the removal of all remaining books from libraries, thereby eliminating a long-standing source of harm to children's self-esteem. It had finally realized that exposing children to figures like Einstein and Rembrandt, whom they could never hope to compete with, was hurtful to their self-esteem, and therefore must be prevented.