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Yes... I'm tempted to add, "Duh."
The only caveat I would make is that some events might be too graphic to describe in detail to elementary schoolers--for instance, the part after the first Thanksgiving where Squanto turned yellow and bled out; or when the colonists knew they couldn't defeat a village of natives in battle, but they wanted the land, so they burned the whole place down when everyone was asleep, children and all.
Or various treatments of slaves (they mention Harriet Tubman, but usually fail to note that she was brain-damaged as a child when her owner threw a lead weight that struck her head, and that the US government refused to grant her any kind of pension after her service in the Civil War).
Or anything about the Trail of Tears, the reason there is a "Lynching Museum" in Alabama, the greed of companies causing women's jaws to fall out due to radiation poisoning...
Yikes. Now that I've started listing these, and knowing how many more I could add, I guess the question becomes--How do we tell the truth about our history without causing trauma in students?
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Yes. If we don’t teach the truth, we devalue at least two whole groups of people. Children need to learn of the hypocrisy of the founding fathers who looked for their own freedom while calling black slaves 3/5s of a person—while holding slaves themselves!