History is important because like what happened in our church after the church leaders destroyed 5 times the documents and history we had in order to hide certain truths in our past, such as women leaders in our church and most likely ordained women priests, a false history is developed and told.  

After this oppressive rules and laws are made derived from ideas that some people are smarter, better leaders, etc.  

We tell women they don't have proof but act like our history saw no corruption.  This becomes a lie of omission.  Unfortunately, white men have already proven that if we leave the story of man in white man's hands (so without gender or race groupings), the history takes on the false impression that only white men have ever really led, been sacred enough to be ordained, made great discoveries, etc. 

White men have notoriously stolen inventions and scientific discoveries, works of art, etc. from both women and black people in our history and claimed them as their own.