I can only assume that whoever chose the theme for HMD this year, For a Better Future, had money on the US election. “Surely,” they must have said to themselves, “Harris will win. Educators and others can talk about the ways in which the world is and can be a better place, just a week after the inauguration.” Or perhaps, since I found myself addressing a school yesterday on this theme, this is more evidence that if history teaches us anything, it’s that historians don’t learn from history.